[ her hands, for want of anything to do, press against her sides, fingers twitching against the fabric of her shirt. stahn makes himself easy to listen to, so she listens with an attentiveness she's used to apply toward those older than herself when they're saying things of interest or perceived relevance.
she doesn't know betrayal. confusion over people wearing more than one face, yes, but not betrayal of a kind she couldn't see coming. her parents giving in to greed? not so unexpected, though she'd been wary and trying to warn them from the start. it's nowhere near the same sort of thing, even if it's nothing they're talking about. how would she feel about being betrayed? it's something she wouldn't know.
but if it were a conversation they were having, she'd hope that she, too, wouldn't think of the one(s) involved as a bad person. she's already seen that life isn't so cut and dry. people, human or spirit or otherwise, aren't so simple that you can understand them and know all about them in a glance. what motivates them, what they care about, what they need to do under their own directives or those of another, these things can come into conflict with themselves or amoung friends.
mosley is no one she knows. CERES is no one she knows, either, but she's experienced them, and what stahn says makes sense. people don't need to be nice to be better people than one first expected. so she nods; she likewise will try not to assume what mosley is or isn't, or even what bellona is or isn't. what she does say, though, is a little less... optimistic? ]
Or that they even want us for good.
[ she adds, hands moving in front of her, holding each other to keep themselves still. ]
Stahn-san? I asked Athena-san about this, but she didn't think it was possible. Do you know if some of the contracts CERES has with the Flamines could be the ones that destroyed our original homes? All those places they claim to have backed up and saved, the ones we're supposed to have been found and made from?
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she doesn't know betrayal. confusion over people wearing more than one face, yes, but not betrayal of a kind she couldn't see coming. her parents giving in to greed? not so unexpected, though she'd been wary and trying to warn them from the start. it's nowhere near the same sort of thing, even if it's nothing they're talking about. how would she feel about being betrayed? it's something she wouldn't know.
but if it were a conversation they were having, she'd hope that she, too, wouldn't think of the one(s) involved as a bad person. she's already seen that life isn't so cut and dry. people, human or spirit or otherwise, aren't so simple that you can understand them and know all about them in a glance. what motivates them, what they care about, what they need to do under their own directives or those of another, these things can come into conflict with themselves or amoung friends.
mosley is no one she knows. CERES is no one she knows, either, but she's experienced them, and what stahn says makes sense. people don't need to be nice to be better people than one first expected. so she nods; she likewise will try not to assume what mosley is or isn't, or even what bellona is or isn't. what she does say, though, is a little less... optimistic? ]
Or that they even want us for good.
[ she adds, hands moving in front of her, holding each other to keep themselves still. ]
Stahn-san? I asked Athena-san about this, but she didn't think it was possible. Do you know if some of the contracts CERES has with the Flamines could be the ones that destroyed our original homes? All those places they claim to have backed up and saved, the ones we're supposed to have been found and made from?