[Flattery? To tell the truth? She's not just trying to help him, she is helping him. And even if her power isn't infinite, there's enough of it that he can tell she has more than him.]
Yeah, I am. But you're not denying it, either.
[It isn't a question this time. Non-answers can carry truths with them, sometimes; he feels like he learned something like that in a diplomacy class, ages ago. He doesn't have to pry, and she can't be forced to tell him. The mood is so light that he hesitates to sour things by delving into business he doesn't belong in, either. She's always been so gentle with him, asking difficult questions, yes, but never forcing or dragging answers from him, accepting the information he's been willing to share. That doesn't give him the right to drag equal answers out of her.
But. What she's trying to do every time she responds like that, evading around a real answer one way or another... maybe it'll be important one day, that he knows. And that she knows he knows.]
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Yeah, I am. But you're not denying it, either.
[It isn't a question this time. Non-answers can carry truths with them, sometimes; he feels like he learned something like that in a diplomacy class, ages ago. He doesn't have to pry, and she can't be forced to tell him. The mood is so light that he hesitates to sour things by delving into business he doesn't belong in, either. She's always been so gentle with him, asking difficult questions, yes, but never forcing or dragging answers from him, accepting the information he's been willing to share. That doesn't give him the right to drag equal answers out of her.
But. What she's trying to do every time she responds like that, evading around a real answer one way or another... maybe it'll be important one day, that he knows. And that she knows he knows.]