[ that prickly frustration-irritation settles as Eve puts her head down and starts picking through that, but—

while some emotions are difficult for her to sort out, affection isn't one of them. ]

...Like and love are sort of on the same spectrum of feeling. I... fuck. I can't say for you when one turns into the other? But I would say that's definitely on the more intense end. Even if it's not romantic or anything like that.