For Eli, everything about Hal and the others is probably just like this amusing and entertaining string of events in a mere play.
Only because they're fictional characters in a book, she treats them like some higher beings or even celebrities from time to time. She gets their autographs and obsesses herself over their love lives like they're something out of a movie.
What's even worse than this is the fact that she has no idea that this is exactly what he's making him feel. She doesn't know that this is how her actions look like to him - that she's more than satisfied with just watching them from a distance.
"Why do you sound so eager to know something like that?" Hal started once more, voice a bit low and hoarse.
