"You should go back, maybe, and tell Raine the things."

"...yeah. I should." 

He waits until Ron is already making a trip back to camp. 

Ron is staring out the window in a melancholy fashion.

He watches Ron's face but doesn't say anything. 

Neither does Ron.

Raine is asleep by the time Marlo gets back. 

He goes to bed instead of waking her up. He'll find time to tell her tomorrow. 

He doesn't sleep well. 

In the morning Lev gives him a hug. 

Oh. Good. 

He hugs Lev, carefully doesn't bury his face in Lev's hair even though he wants to. 

Is he sure about that. Lev is burying his face in Marlo's chest. Lev's hair is right there.

— he isn't, as it turns out. 

Lev's hair is very soft. 

This is a very heterosexual hug. Lots of nonsexual intimacy here. 

"I really like you," Lev says, because I love you is maybe kind of homosexual.

"I like you too." His voice is very very soft. 

Lev is going to pull away at some point.

Definitely.

He is going to do that.

After a minute and a half or so, Marlo pulls away and says "We should probably go to breakfast." 

"Yeah. --We're going to meet the girls soon."

"Should be interesting." He's not sure what that's going to involve and he's not sure whether he wants to know just yet. 

"Maybe I will get a girlfriend! An unambiguous girlfriend."

He sounds so hopeful.

"I hope you do." 

(This is, in fact, true; he does hope Lev gets the things he wants. He's just not at all sure it would actually be good for him.)

Then they can go off to breakfast!

Lev keeps smiling at Marlo.

Marlo is kind of distracted, but not in a way that prevents him from smiling at Lev. 

"Can I speak with you for a moment, Marlo?"

"Yes, of course," he says, and follows her, goes over how he wants to word the message from Ron. 

When they're alone, she says, 

"Did my brother say anything to you?"

"He said that he loves you and misses you and of course he wants to hear from you, and that — this isn't the exact wording, but that he can't imagine God loves you any less than he does, and if he wanted you to do something that would make you miserable for your entire life he'd be a terrible brother."