[Stung and bemused in equal measures, Yuan closes his eyes, pinches the bridge of his nose. He needs to not snap at Kratos about this. Not when some vague progress is finally being made.]
[And this is far more words than Kratos usually strings together at once.]
I assumed you wouldn't give them, so there was little point. Unless I wanted to make all our interactions more terse than they already are.
[Kratos had already been interrogated. Either he'd given useful information, or he hadn't, and in any case if it had taken some measure of torture to make him speak, then Yuan would not be well-suited to get any more from him.]
I don't expect you to betray Tethe'alla. I'd assumed you'd want to make the best of a bad situation, that's all.
[And for Yuan those truly are two different things, at least in this case. He frowns, focusing better again as the answer occurs to him.]
no subject
[Stung and bemused in equal measures, Yuan closes his eyes, pinches the bridge of his nose. He needs to not snap at Kratos about this. Not when some vague progress is finally being made.]
[And this is far more words than Kratos usually strings together at once.]
I assumed you wouldn't give them, so there was little point. Unless I wanted to make all our interactions more terse than they already are.
[Kratos had already been interrogated. Either he'd given useful information, or he hadn't, and in any case if it had taken some measure of torture to make him speak, then Yuan would not be well-suited to get any more from him.]
I don't expect you to betray Tethe'alla. I'd assumed you'd want to make the best of a bad situation, that's all.
[And for Yuan those truly are two different things, at least in this case. He frowns, focusing better again as the answer occurs to him.]
You're-- a true patriot, then.