[Fenimore's heart skips when she feels Rei's shoulder touch hers, though mostly out of surprise, and the emphasis on the yet...well. She would have expected some pleasant feelings arising from that kind of a signal: it was flattering that Rei would consider the thought at least not unappealing -- a part of Fenimore's difficulty in wording her denial in front of Rei came from not wanting to imply that going would with Rei would be a bad thing. But, to her own surprise, she feels a little happier hearing it than she would have expected. She's certain she hasn't fallen for Rei so far, and she's pretty sure that she doesn't have a crush on her, either. Still, if that yet pleases her this much, it's possible that she's at least beginning to develop a crush.

Well, perhaps. She doesn't have the time to properly examine the state of her emotions before she has to return her attention to Grune. Their words don't seem to have dissauded her. If anything, it almost seems to have made it worse.

She glances over at Rei, as though to ask, "now what?" But since they haven't spent too much time together yet, her ability to communicate things with a look or read any return signals from Rei are not exactly stellar, so she'll give up on that and look back to Grune. The solidarity of their position at least helps her to put more confidence into her words, even if her face is still somewhat pink.]

Well, I guess that's...technically true, but -- Grune, we might just become friends. You shouldn't read too far into it.