Scorpio

The silence between you and someone you care about is doing work that conversation cannot do. It carries the weight of what you both already know without either of you having to risk saying it wrong. You find yourself reading their smallest gestures differently now, the way they pause before answering a simple question, the specific topics they avoid bringing up. This kind of quiet requires more attention than talking does, not less. What looks like distance from the outside is actually you learning a more careful language, one where the pauses mean as much as the words.