Does a lack of good faith necessarily entail bad faith?
[ It's spoken more mildly than it might have once been, not that he would know. There's a glint of- something, in her eyes. Odd as it might be, her shoulders are more lax now. As if she's more comfortable with the tension and uncertainty involved in evaluating others and being evaluated in return, rather than starting from assumed mutual cooperation and goodwill.
Perhaps it says something about her that she'd rather trust in ambiguity or admitted self-interest, mild as the sort involved in curiosity would be, over a friendly front, these days. ]
But... thank you. I believe that is all I needed to know.
[ It's not happiness or even contentment as it is... acceptance, or satisfaction, rather, that colours her tone then. But she tilts her head after she says this, fixing him with a look into which she allows to leak a little of her own inquisitiveness. ]
no subject
[ It's spoken more mildly than it might have once been, not that he would know. There's a glint of- something, in her eyes. Odd as it might be, her shoulders are more lax now. As if she's more comfortable with the tension and uncertainty involved in evaluating others and being evaluated in return, rather than starting from assumed mutual cooperation and goodwill.
Perhaps it says something about her that she'd rather trust in ambiguity or admitted self-interest, mild as the sort involved in curiosity would be, over a friendly front, these days. ]
But... thank you. I believe that is all I needed to know.
[ It's not happiness or even contentment as it is... acceptance, or satisfaction, rather, that colours her tone then. But she tilts her head after she says this, fixing him with a look into which she allows to leak a little of her own inquisitiveness. ]
Have you satisfied your curiosity, then?