Everyone's always so, oh, we don't know anything so don't even ask.
( it's an observation that she doesn't press any further - she's not going to complain about it, or go rattling cages, but her restlessness with that is hard to miss even from the fact that she's here asking these questions or that she does feel the need to comment on it at all. being told to accept ignorance is something that she can't help but resent; information is control, and ilde has always both wanted it and been clever enough to know where to find it.
she's already made her mind up that this is an acquaintance she's going to maintain. even if none of it is information she can do anything with, even if all she can do is hoard it like a shield against complacency, that'll do. )
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( it's an observation that she doesn't press any further - she's not going to complain about it, or go rattling cages, but her restlessness with that is hard to miss even from the fact that she's here asking these questions or that she does feel the need to comment on it at all. being told to accept ignorance is something that she can't help but resent; information is control, and ilde has always both wanted it and been clever enough to know where to find it.
she's already made her mind up that this is an acquaintance she's going to maintain. even if none of it is information she can do anything with, even if all she can do is hoard it like a shield against complacency, that'll do. )