Of course you are. But that's exactly why I was expecting a better lie. ... but if it works then it works.

[ It's... well, she doesn't want to call it cute. That makes it all sound so twee and lighthearted which it pointedly hadn't been. But she can't help but wonder if even this tiny slice of togetherness had been just as much for Oberon's sake as it had been for that girl's.

Chasing a star you know you'll never reach is all sorts of lonely, after all. ]

I don't want you ever teaching Aqua or Ruby any of this if you ever meet them, by the way. They're clever enough to pick it all up and that's exactly what worries me.