[ He doesn't need to say anything for her to catch his dubious response to that first claim. Mat doesn't know her quite well enough to call her on it, but that doesn't mean he's buying what she's selling.
The all-business response isn't surprising. It's also more likely to make him homesick than anything else, which is a sad statement about how tangled up he'd been in other people's politics. It also turns out 'advisor' was the wrong word, which is significant because— ]
(You're equals, then? Both—) [ Digging deep for this one, clearly. ] (Hedas?)
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The all-business response isn't surprising. It's also more likely to make him homesick than anything else, which is a sad statement about how tangled up he'd been in other people's politics. It also turns out 'advisor' was the wrong word, which is significant because— ]
( You're equals, then? Both— ) [ Digging deep for this one, clearly. ] ( Hedas? )