. . . You know why I can't take that too seriously, right?
[He doesn't actually want this to be a fight, so he's delicate in saying it. It's not an accusation; it's a genuine question, and the beginning of an explanation. Maybe she really doesn't know. She should, if she doesn't, and he'll just have to tell her. By now he's just sitting on the ground, cross-legged, relaxing with his shrooms for the moment.]
The situation's changed. Whatever she told you about me, I bet it was before I turned my back on Chaldea. Or at least before she knew I had. The same goes for Kyrielight and everyone else. They had a certain impression of me, but there's no way that hasn't changed. . . . I played a hand no one expected me to be holding, and they're not dumb enough to not take that into their account of me now.
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[He doesn't actually want this to be a fight, so he's delicate in saying it. It's not an accusation; it's a genuine question, and the beginning of an explanation. Maybe she really doesn't know. She should, if she doesn't, and he'll just have to tell her. By now he's just sitting on the ground, cross-legged, relaxing with his shrooms for the moment.]
The situation's changed. Whatever she told you about me, I bet it was before I turned my back on Chaldea. Or at least before she knew I had. The same goes for Kyrielight and everyone else. They had a certain impression of me, but there's no way that hasn't changed. . . . I played a hand no one expected me to be holding, and they're not dumb enough to not take that into their account of me now.