[ It's giving away a lot to say that instead of just telling him that they didn't.
Or it would be if she wasn't convinced that Reiner had already made it entirely obvious how close their association was. Maybe she was just too used to acting on her own, but it still grated to have such information freely given. She just had to make herself remember the goal here.
They had to fit in. A small, tightly knit military unit from the same background was fitting in just as much as a loose knit group would, and it was just as much Reiner's nature to hold out their story where anyone could see as it was her own to try to hide it. And, in this situation, a measure honesty was probably the easiest to fall back on.
It wasn't wrong to associate with her comrades freely anymore, and it was a hard lesson to unlearn. She's too curious about this Lord Auditor now to not give him at least something in that regard, so she flatly turns it around on him as a question. ]
Does it mean something else where you come from? 'Comrades?'
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[ It's giving away a lot to say that instead of just telling him that they didn't.
Or it would be if she wasn't convinced that Reiner had already made it entirely obvious how close their association was. Maybe she was just too used to acting on her own, but it still grated to have such information freely given. She just had to make herself remember the goal here.
They had to fit in. A small, tightly knit military unit from the same background was fitting in just as much as a loose knit group would, and it was just as much Reiner's nature to hold out their story where anyone could see as it was her own to try to hide it. And, in this situation, a measure honesty was probably the easiest to fall back on.
It wasn't wrong to associate with her comrades freely anymore, and it was a hard lesson to unlearn. She's too curious about this Lord Auditor now to not give him at least something in that regard, so she flatly turns it around on him as a question. ]
Does it mean something else where you come from? 'Comrades?'