( There are lies you tell other factions, secrets you keep from them because it benefits your own.
Then there are the ones you tell to your own faction, because the more people who know, the more risk you're all at.
Kate never imagined the second would suck so much. But this is the job she was given, the role she has to play. No one else can know about this, not from her at least. That includes Shou, as nice a guy as he is. That includes Shin, and that Kate keeps this away from him — the one person in this place she's managed to spill her real story to — really says it all. )
Tired. ( Not a lie. She's exhausted, and even after sessions with the Tamamo healers, her body still aches. ) Promotion's a bitch at a time like this.
( It's a non-answer, a line fed so he'll hopefully just go with the story that she's been too busy to so much as leave Mizukume since everything happened.
That it's workload, not orders, which keeps her locked down here. )
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Then there are the ones you tell to your own faction, because the more people who know, the more risk you're all at.
Kate never imagined the second would suck so much. But this is the job she was given, the role she has to play. No one else can know about this, not from her at least. That includes Shou, as nice a guy as he is. That includes Shin, and that Kate keeps this away from him — the one person in this place she's managed to spill her real story to — really says it all. )
Tired. ( Not a lie. She's exhausted, and even after sessions with the Tamamo healers, her body still aches. ) Promotion's a bitch at a time like this.
( It's a non-answer, a line fed so he'll hopefully just go with the story that she's been too busy to so much as leave Mizukume since everything happened.
That it's workload, not orders, which keeps her locked down here. )