The Mind Communication the next day.
"Anyway, that's what happened," Sigrdrifa told Aske, "He said that at the time he lacked the power and could only watch helplessly as his mother was taken away."
"Do you believe what he said, Sigrdrifa?" Medea asked.
"I don't think he lied." Sigrdrifa was silent for a moment, then said, "But he definitely has something he's hiding."
"The most obvious part is that he never asked me whether my mother was still alive or exactly how she died." She laughed bitterly, "You know? If I hadn't been so indifferent to him all the time, he wouldn't even tell me these secrets—it's as if all these things were not worth mentioning."
"Well, scumbags are all like that," Medea said nonchalantly, "Before they have you, they sweet-talk a thousand ways, but once they get you, they avoid you like the plague, as if all those sweet nothings were spat out of a dog's mouth."
Aske: ???
Why does it feel like someone is beating around the bush?
