[Something off indeed, and it's obvious in her face - which she keeps turned away - and her voice when she replies with a short,]
Oh.
[The answer to that question, though, seems to require some consideration. Remembering where they are and what that means, she stops short. Even he's not the Riku from her worlds, he's one of the few people she'd consider telling the truth, about what she is and what she can do, mostly because not only is she fairly certain she can trust him, but... he has an actual use for such knowledge. Should he be able to return home, knowing what she knows might help him in his understanding of his own situation.]
[But now is not the time, she realizes. Not when it's even more likely than usual that someone might be listening.]
It's... complicated. [Now that she thinks about it a little more, she's hesitant to say even what she otherwise might add. Instead,] I'll... explain later. Okay?
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Oh.
[The answer to that question, though, seems to require some consideration. Remembering where they are and what that means, she stops short. Even he's not the Riku from her worlds, he's one of the few people she'd consider telling the truth, about what she is and what she can do, mostly because not only is she fairly certain she can trust him, but... he has an actual use for such knowledge. Should he be able to return home, knowing what she knows might help him in his understanding of his own situation.]
[But now is not the time, she realizes. Not when it's even more likely than usual that someone might be listening.]
It's... complicated. [Now that she thinks about it a little more, she's hesitant to say even what she otherwise might add. Instead,] I'll... explain later. Okay?