Busting Out an Info Broker

To say that Eli is astounded is an understatement that's beyond belief.

She has no idea why Hal is acting this way even though she knows well that he's the type who never hesitates to initiate physical contact whenever he pleases. Most of the time, he would embrace her or hold her in other ways as a form of entertainment and jest.

She has long been seeing that as a part of his childish nature and impetuous tendencies - an attitude that's a bit similar to Noah. Though there's a point when she assumed that there's something more to these gestures, she just shrugged it off since she always thought that this was normal between friends.

Yet now, for some reason, she can feel that his soft caress is speaking a thousand words.