( it's the avoidant look that might be more telling, the little slip in her expression that might tell clara that she knows something about losing people too, that she may also have few people left. though that knowledge haunts at adrienne, physically and mentally.

so she covers it (or attempt to) by eating her brownie, refusing to hold the woman's gaze for a moment. and when she brings it back it's to her best friend )

She's good. I've known her... nearly twenty years. And she's one of the few people who didn't let me burn her bridge.

( because that's what adrienne had done after her last loss: pushed everyone away. burned a lot of it down. brutally honest even if it sounds a little exaggerated in her tone )