[It surprises her for a moment, and then it makes her smile, and it's a little more genuine again.]
You've been playing the game too, after all.
[She says it casually, and she's smiling, but still watching him as she does, though it's as much to let him know that she also knows as anything. But then, after that, she finally uncurls slightly, getting up onto her knees on the bed before stretching across it to kiss him gently on the cheek and then settles next to him, taking his hand up in hers and absently tracing patterns on fingers and palm.]
Do you... Were you just asking about my plans to let me know that you knew I had some? I... remember them now, but... not all of why, I think.
[And there was another matter, delicate and vulnerable, a fear that he might think less of her, or might decide to act against her, if he knew more of what she was.
She didn't think that of him, really, but she couldn't know for sure here, couldn't run the tangled paths of history to their conclusions, and that made it harder, and made it scarier.
She'd only trusted Aoi with these secrets so far, because he'd been with her every step of the way, he'd had to be. She would not have been able to do it herself.]
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You've been playing the game too, after all.
[She says it casually, and she's smiling, but still watching him as she does, though it's as much to let him know that she also knows as anything. But then, after that, she finally uncurls slightly, getting up onto her knees on the bed before stretching across it to kiss him gently on the cheek and then settles next to him, taking his hand up in hers and absently tracing patterns on fingers and palm.]
Do you... Were you just asking about my plans to let me know that you knew I had some? I... remember them now, but... not all of why, I think.
[And there was another matter, delicate and vulnerable, a fear that he might think less of her, or might decide to act against her, if he knew more of what she was.
She didn't think that of him, really, but she couldn't know for sure here, couldn't run the tangled paths of history to their conclusions, and that made it harder, and made it scarier.
She'd only trusted Aoi with these secrets so far, because he'd been with her every step of the way, he'd had to be. She would not have been able to do it herself.]