She doesn't catch his reaction to her talking about her Steve till the very end, and by then she just decided to finish and watch him. The follow-up question isn't what she expected, but then a whole lot about this Steve isn't what she expected. And the differences just make her cautiously driven to learn more. There's a slight pause, as she frowns slightly, wondering why he'd ask that of all things, but then answers.
"It was.. October 25th, 1944." She had to pause a little mid sentence to mentally make sure that was correct. When in war, sometimes the days and months can run together, but that summer was particularly hard to keep track of as the situation in Poland came to light. Nurses were needed, so she left the SSR and the commandos for a bit to help. She purses her lips as she realizes that all of that was actually quite recently and she'd been compartmentalizing it until now when she let her mind wander back. She sighs and props her elbow on it the counter and leans her cheek against a fist, then she moves her eyes to him again.
"And you?" She boomerangs it back to revert her focus.
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"It was.. October 25th, 1944." She had to pause a little mid sentence to mentally make sure that was correct. When in war, sometimes the days and months can run together, but that summer was particularly hard to keep track of as the situation in Poland came to light. Nurses were needed, so she left the SSR and the commandos for a bit to help. She purses her lips as she realizes that all of that was actually quite recently and she'd been compartmentalizing it until now when she let her mind wander back. She sighs and props her elbow on it the counter and leans her cheek against a fist, then she moves her eyes to him again.
"And you?" She boomerangs it back to revert her focus.