Ehe... you can say that again. [...She does sound a little fond, though, with that. He is strange, but she can't deny that infecting him with cringe was one of the highlights of an otherwise weird and kind of stressful day. As for Zelos calling her out on being jaded... she pauses for a second, then just smiles.] And I guess I have to concede to that point.
[At his refusal of the funnel cake, she just blinks a little. Really, it has nothing to do with attaching strings... it's just that she already has one playboy with his hand in her— well, really, her stepfather's— wallet, and she isn't particularly looking for a second. Although, making the executive decision to join this one at a café isn't really helping her along toward that path, is it? Still, she shrugs, tearing off a piece.]
Mm? Your loss, then.
[She pops it into her mouth, taking the moment to think over how she wants to word things. Swallowing, she speaks up again.]
...For the record. It's not that I don't believe you — at least, not anymore. I can't deny I thought you were all a bunch of lunatics to begin with, but I've had to come to terms with a whole lot of things being real over the past couple of days that I was pretty sure people just wrote novels about before.
It just... feels like Zodiac came in and upended everything I ever thought I knew about how the world works. [...] Although, I imagine you have it a lot worse.
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[At his refusal of the funnel cake, she just blinks a little. Really, it has nothing to do with attaching strings... it's just that she already has one playboy with his hand in her— well, really, her stepfather's— wallet, and she isn't particularly looking for a second. Although, making the executive decision to join this one at a café isn't really helping her along toward that path, is it? Still, she shrugs, tearing off a piece.]
Mm? Your loss, then.
[She pops it into her mouth, taking the moment to think over how she wants to word things. Swallowing, she speaks up again.]
...For the record. It's not that I don't believe you — at least, not anymore. I can't deny I thought you were all a bunch of lunatics to begin with, but I've had to come to terms with a whole lot of things being real over the past couple of days that I was pretty sure people just wrote novels about before.
It just... feels like Zodiac came in and upended everything I ever thought I knew about how the world works. [...] Although, I imagine you have it a lot worse.