[Raine doesn't quite flinch, but it's a near thing; there's a stutter to otherwise smooth movements. Primly:]
I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about.
[He could mean anything, after all. Even if there's a very high probability he means this one, specific thing.]
[Raine traces the line of her staff to resist the impulse to brush her hair forward.]
...In any case, it's not as though there isn't precedent. If you were intending all along to guide Colette, trust would have been much easier won as an angel. Even if you are hiding for some reason, there have been enough stretches on the road where we were unobserved. You might have explained.
[To Colette, if not the rest of them. Raine is simply having trouble fathoming why, when Kratos would have fit neatly into their established narrative, he would go to all the trouble of hiding it. Hiding is not an enviable lifestyle, and they could have benefited from what he has to say much earlier.]
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I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about.
[He could mean anything, after all. Even if there's a very high probability he means this one, specific thing.]
[Raine traces the line of her staff to resist the impulse to brush her hair forward.]
...In any case, it's not as though there isn't precedent. If you were intending all along to guide Colette, trust would have been much easier won as an angel. Even if you are hiding for some reason, there have been enough stretches on the road where we were unobserved. You might have explained.
[To Colette, if not the rest of them. Raine is simply having trouble fathoming why, when Kratos would have fit neatly into their established narrative, he would go to all the trouble of hiding it. Hiding is not an enviable lifestyle, and they could have benefited from what he has to say much earlier.]