[He'd have to try to lose her, even in this crowd. She's nothing if not willful, when she needs to be. That he should keep walking, however, does not bother her in the slightest. The moment of silence, at least from her side of things, is heavy.]
Because she was making it up?
[It's almost absurd, how she manages to make that sound both benign and focused all at the same time. It's not actually a question so much as something in a strange twilight between the least pointed, most gentle and well-meant accusation possible and an expression of sympathy, of all things, because it doesn't contain the rest, the more potent, 'or because you believe it?' anywhere but in the spaces between the words, and then it's only the faintest of whispers even for something unspoken.]
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Because she was making it up?
[It's almost absurd, how she manages to make that sound both benign and focused all at the same time. It's not actually a question so much as something in a strange twilight between the least pointed, most gentle and well-meant accusation possible and an expression of sympathy, of all things, because it doesn't contain the rest, the more potent, 'or because you believe it?' anywhere but in the spaces between the words, and then it's only the faintest of whispers even for something unspoken.]