"I'm surprised you're willing to tell me all this." Her voice was slow, measured. She tilted her head at him. "I'm used to secrecy; I've been taught not to reveal anything...unusual to anyone who isn't...like me." Talking like this was, she knew perfectly well, slipping her hand a little, but she found herself wanting to see how he would react. Most kine — most people, she mentally corrected herself — had all sorts of mental defenses in place, because most people "knew" that there was no such thing as the supernatural. But then, Wallie clearly wasn't "most people."
She paused another moment — just long enough to let him turn those words over in his head a bit — and went on. "Normally, I'd expect to have to, ah, convince someone to tell me the kind of things you're sharing. And yet you seem — well, I suppose you could be lying, though I'm not sure why you would, about something like this; surely there are easier lies — you seem so open."
After all the time she'd spent lecturing Mina about the Masquerade, Anna found herself wanting to tell him— everything. An idiot idea, to be sure, she berated herself. And yet...
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"I'm surprised you're willing to tell me all this." Her voice was slow, measured. She tilted her head at him. "I'm used to secrecy; I've been taught not to reveal anything...unusual to anyone who isn't...like me." Talking like this was, she knew perfectly well, slipping her hand a little, but she found herself wanting to see how he would react. Most kine — most people, she mentally corrected herself — had all sorts of mental defenses in place, because most people "knew" that there was no such thing as the supernatural. But then, Wallie clearly wasn't "most people."
She paused another moment — just long enough to let him turn those words over in his head a bit — and went on. "Normally, I'd expect to have to, ah, convince someone to tell me the kind of things you're sharing. And yet you seem — well, I suppose you could be lying, though I'm not sure why you would, about something like this; surely there are easier lies — you seem so open."
After all the time she'd spent lecturing Mina about the Masquerade, Anna found herself wanting to tell him— everything. An idiot idea, to be sure, she berated herself. And yet...