it's about romantic feelings and going nonverbal
Nonverbal doesn't mean incommunicado. Sometimes everything can be said with a look, a shift in stance, a gentle touch.
Nonverbal doesn't mean upset, sad, angry, that old trauma is resurfacing.
Sati looks at Diana, concern plain on her face. Diana, blank-faced, shakes zir head and gestures to zir wife to come closer.
Sati walks closer, just within reach to be pulled in for a hug.
"I love you so much," Diana says with a small stroke of zir fingers along Sati's arm.
"I know that, silly," Sati replies with a glance up to her lover's face and a shining smile.