[She eyes him back as he observes her, immune and unperturbed. Having been observed her whole life from beneath gazes of what she had taken for naked hostility which had actually transpired to be flinching terror, it's hard to feel much of anything when someone else's eyes are on her now. She shrugs though with an affected kind of indifference when he poses his question, and moves to take another sip of the watery ale. She doesn't know shit about anything, never has. Won't pretend that anything has changed, but there'd been no sense staying in a place that had proved itself to be duplicitous as hell, and any place that claimed reclusive neutrality smacks too much of the bleak, dead pit she'd spent her life attempting to flee from.
But under and around all of that, shot through any other logic she could apply, there had been the issue of choice. Of having one open up to her, after a lifetime of clawing and scrabbling after any crumb of autonomy she could find for herself. Maybe it'll transpire to be a choice she regrets right down to the very bones of herself, or maybe it won't-- but it's a choice she made, and it matters.
But ultimately she's a teenaged tearaway, which translates to fuck making herself vulnerable for some guy she's only just met, so as her stein hits the table she offers a watered-down version of the truth.]
Thorne's motives are obviously shady as fuck or there wouldn't be so much secrecy. And any place that claims neutrality is only ever being half-way honest. Even if they never get involved with this Singularity bullshit they'll have their own goals and motives, just like anyone else. This place though, they're pretty straightforward in their approach. Here's this thing that seems strange and hostile to them, and they don't understand it, so best to just blow the shit out of it, right? I'm not saying I agree with that stance, or that these guys won't end up being just as shitty and secretive as anyone else, but for now they seem the least complicated of the lot. It's a good enough position to start from. I can't tell you how fucking done I am with secrets and lies.
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But under and around all of that, shot through any other logic she could apply, there had been the issue of choice. Of having one open up to her, after a lifetime of clawing and scrabbling after any crumb of autonomy she could find for herself. Maybe it'll transpire to be a choice she regrets right down to the very bones of herself, or maybe it won't-- but it's a choice she made, and it matters.
But ultimately she's a teenaged tearaway, which translates to fuck making herself vulnerable for some guy she's only just met, so as her stein hits the table she offers a watered-down version of the truth.]
Thorne's motives are obviously shady as fuck or there wouldn't be so much secrecy. And any place that claims neutrality is only ever being half-way honest. Even if they never get involved with this Singularity bullshit they'll have their own goals and motives, just like anyone else. This place though, they're pretty straightforward in their approach. Here's this thing that seems strange and hostile to them, and they don't understand it, so best to just blow the shit out of it, right? I'm not saying I agree with that stance, or that these guys won't end up being just as shitty and secretive as anyone else, but for now they seem the least complicated of the lot. It's a good enough position to start from. I can't tell you how fucking done I am with secrets and lies.