She resists the urge to fondly notice that he's now involved with possibly the bluntest person he could find, with regard to believing one's partner. Instead, she answers his question.
"She was, yeah. I mean... it looked different. And our dynamic was different the first time I was here, some, because I was sick. Neither of us wanted me to be, but I think it was easier to mistake me for a certain kind of fragile when it was sometimes hard for me to breathe, you know?"
It hadn't been a simpler dynamic, but it had maybe seemed that way at the time.
"But ever since I've known her, she's mistrusted herself in some ways. I don't know how much is the Circle and how much is temperament, but I think it makes it easy to mistrust others when you think your own motivations and assumptions are in some ways suspect." And that seemed to have been getting worse, even before the Tranquility.
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"She was, yeah. I mean... it looked different. And our dynamic was different the first time I was here, some, because I was sick. Neither of us wanted me to be, but I think it was easier to mistake me for a certain kind of fragile when it was sometimes hard for me to breathe, you know?"
It hadn't been a simpler dynamic, but it had maybe seemed that way at the time.
"But ever since I've known her, she's mistrusted herself in some ways. I don't know how much is the Circle and how much is temperament, but I think it makes it easy to mistrust others when you think your own motivations and assumptions are in some ways suspect." And that seemed to have been getting worse, even before the Tranquility.