[Both bread and vegetables are grilled nicely and she just starts to idly peel the hardboiled eggs.]
I appreciate you. Mercenary mindset and all.
[The manner in which she expresses gratefulness obscures the sincerity. Lucinda isn't under any illusions that he's an honorable man who's housing her out of the kindness of his heart. It's convenient and he's suspicious of her and rightly so. The woman has an eerie tendency to be able to read into another person's character, with or without the helpful whispers of shadows.]
no subject
[Both bread and vegetables are grilled nicely and she just starts to idly peel the hardboiled eggs.]
I appreciate you. Mercenary mindset and all.
[The manner in which she expresses gratefulness obscures the sincerity. Lucinda isn't under any illusions that he's an honorable man who's housing her out of the kindness of his heart. It's convenient and he's suspicious of her and rightly so. The woman has an eerie tendency to be able to read into another person's character, with or without the helpful whispers of shadows.]