Omg, right! I was wondering if I was imagining how her voice changed, but I relistened and I don’t think I was.
Here she is to Mary:
Okay, a normal amount of upset and concerned.
And like! Obviously you can’t hear it gentling in a gif, but it just seems a special little moment, the way Beatrice and Mary react. Just kind of…charged? I do believe that they did want to play Bea/Ava’s relationship as a bit special this season already, for a variety of reasons, if only so it’d be even more dramatic if Ava has to let Bea down easily, but who knows.
Either way, Bea does mean something special to Ava, the way she reached for her to hug, the way she saved her instinctively from the shotgun, the way she listens to her and talks to her. She is the closest thing to a friend Ava has, whatever else happens.