[To be fair, the last person Teren was into stabbed her several times because she felt like it, so it's not like that's unprecedented.
Her face is incredulous, caught between outrage and something that may even resemble embarrassment, if Teren were capable of feeling such things.]
Well that's-- [she begins, and it dies immediately; if she doesn't know how much he heard, how can she lie about it? Because that's the question here, not whether or not to tell the truth, but how much truth she's being forced to work with.]
You're--
[Her mouth screws up like she wants to say something and can't make it form. She'd demand to know why he was listening, but that would obviously suggest there was something he wasn't supposed to hear, which, in the Shady Person's Handbook, is tantamount to admitting guilt.]
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Date: 2017-08-27 05:53 am (UTC)Her face is incredulous, caught between outrage and something that may even resemble embarrassment, if Teren were capable of feeling such things.]
Well that's-- [she begins, and it dies immediately; if she doesn't know how much he heard, how can she lie about it? Because that's the question here, not whether or not to tell the truth, but how much truth she's being forced to work with.]
You're--
[Her mouth screws up like she wants to say something and can't make it form.
She'd demand to know why he was listening, but that would obviously suggest there was something he wasn't supposed to hear, which, in the Shady Person's Handbook, is tantamount to admitting guilt.]