[OZ SHOULD BE COUNTED EVERY TIME. He actually seems a little endeared that Ciel seems so sure that he'd get hit by the friendship express regardless... because he 100% would.....]
No one can be honest all of the time, about everything. [Which might sound strange coming from Oz, who is usually quite truthful and open about most things, but- naturally, even he understands when deception is "necessary". Even if it's not malicious, which it wouldn't be in Ciel's example; even if it's not the same as deception when wielded as a weapon in the way that people like Jack manage it. Self-protective deception is something that Oz understands well, in the moments when he says "it's fine" or makes a promise that he knows he can't keep.]
Besides, that inequality would exist even if I never talked to you again, right? Avoiding you wouldn't change the fact that I know more about you than you would willingly share in any other situation, and that you wouldn't know anything about me. Is there really an elevated risk that comes with contact? It would give me the chance to get to know you again, even if things wouldn't be the same.
[Which he says in a particularly insistent way, like he knows "things aren't the same" is essentially the crux of the problem here, beyond all of the fear of hurting or being hurt.]
LOOK....
No one can be honest all of the time, about everything. [Which might sound strange coming from Oz, who is usually quite truthful and open about most things, but- naturally, even he understands when deception is "necessary". Even if it's not malicious, which it wouldn't be in Ciel's example; even if it's not the same as deception when wielded as a weapon in the way that people like Jack manage it. Self-protective deception is something that Oz understands well, in the moments when he says "it's fine" or makes a promise that he knows he can't keep.]
Besides, that inequality would exist even if I never talked to you again, right? Avoiding you wouldn't change the fact that I know more about you than you would willingly share in any other situation, and that you wouldn't know anything about me. Is there really an elevated risk that comes with contact? It would give me the chance to get to know you again, even if things wouldn't be the same.
[Which he says in a particularly insistent way, like he knows "things aren't the same" is essentially the crux of the problem here, beyond all of the fear of hurting or being hurt.]