[ Although she won't admit it out loud anytime soon, right now she's just too frightened and confused to want to be alone. Steve is familiar and a safety of sorts, and she feels like the longer he stays near her, the easier it will be for her to get used to this new reality.

Well, that and... she wants to be with him, plain and simple. If she has any say in it she won't take her eyes off of him anytime soon. The love of her life, the one she thought she'd lost so long ago— alive and well, after all. It's irrational but she fears that if they part, this will turn out to be no more than a dream.

A soft laugh leaves her at his answer, and she shrugs, looking entirely unapologetic. ] I couldn't resist. Although I suppose I'm in no place to talk. [ She is in a much similar predicament, after all. ] You do look very fit for a man well over his nineties.