"If you can agree that it's both of us, I'll settle." At least this was some degree of progress. She could take it to mean that he acknowledged that his advice was good, it was just that they both may not actually follow the words he said. It seemed as though that was as far as she was going to get here. "I'm sure you can understand it," she said with a smirk. Maybe she should have acknowledged his statement about hoping things get better, but she didn't. The conversation wasn't about her after all.

"Maybe. I have a friend who would say that." Rachel would definitely be on the side of pushing people to do the impossible because you never really knew. Ivy of course with her more cynical nature (and own personal history with what her future was destined to hold) didn't subscribe to that. But....she could act like she did for a friend if it offered him some comfort. "I'm sure we'd have all thought a world like this one and the last was impossible. But here we are." So, maybe anything at all was possible. Did it click in her mind that it might mean her situation might not be so impossible? Nope. Not in the slightest.

"That's my suggestion. It looks better on me anyway. I give off the sultry mysterious lure. You just give off," she gestured up and down with an elegant flick of her wrists. "This. It definitely doesn't suit you."