[She's got all sorts of fun stories about the girl's apparent cooking hero, after all.
Ren isn't really what she wants to talk about, though; it's a means to an end, an opening. A sliver of more things she missed- and more things she watched, when she couldn't do anything else.]
...That was nice of you, y'know. To give her that.
[And she knows he knows, but... well. It's important to acknowledge this sort of thing sometimes. Only sometimes, so he doesn't get too squirrely. It's sort of like training a really cagey cat.]
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[She's got all sorts of fun stories about the girl's apparent cooking hero, after all.
Ren isn't really what she wants to talk about, though; it's a means to an end, an opening. A sliver of more things she missed- and more things she watched, when she couldn't do anything else.]
...That was nice of you, y'know. To give her that.
[And she knows he knows, but... well. It's important to acknowledge this sort of thing sometimes. Only sometimes, so he doesn't get too squirrely. It's sort of like training a really cagey cat.]