He takes another breath, and says, "Blades have been in fucked up situations for as long as we've existed. We were reliant on humans to be. For every good person, there were two who didn't think of us as real people. So we had to look out for our own."
It's not hoping, exactly. It's not something so distinctive, or really so optimistic. Blades look out for each other, in the same way any two strangers who have been in the same shithole will look to each other before people outside the group.
(It would be weird if she did drip. Whatever she may be, his expectations are still parsing her as a high-tier water blade, and water blades above a certain level are only wet if they want to be.)
What else can he say? That just the way she jumps straight to an accusation of spying, so personal about it, screams the same sort of situation? If she's that paranoid, that will probably only make things worse.
Instead, he says, "So it was one part curiosity, and one part keeping myself safe while trying to figure out the answer. I didn't, and still don't, mean you any harm."
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It's not hoping, exactly. It's not something so distinctive, or really so optimistic. Blades look out for each other, in the same way any two strangers who have been in the same shithole will look to each other before people outside the group.
(It would be weird if she did drip. Whatever she may be, his expectations are still parsing her as a high-tier water blade, and water blades above a certain level are only wet if they want to be.)
What else can he say? That just the way she jumps straight to an accusation of spying, so personal about it, screams the same sort of situation? If she's that paranoid, that will probably only make things worse.
Instead, he says, "So it was one part curiosity, and one part keeping myself safe while trying to figure out the answer. I didn't, and still don't, mean you any harm."