You know well that... I do not speak with intent to flatter.

[ The notion that with the very serious way she carries herself, to take her for being insincere would be absurd, as much as she has the decency to have her own tone remain as light as she can manage it to be, soft and measured that it always is. ]

Nor are your actions those of one who would think so little of... what you offer now.

[ The act of braiding someone's hair with so much thought and care, of seeming to hold reverence for that which had existed for so many years with little more thought than an identifier, only Pyra truly pays her hair that much mind. The fact that it's even longer and livelier now only accentuates what a labor it must truly be. ]