[He shrugs a little helplessly to acknowledge the remark; he doesn't have a great track record with that kind of thing, it turns out. She's partly right to think what she does—after all, being Fae was a nightmare to him, so it only made sense for it to come out in a similar form.]

Yeah? I wonder if he would have come to talk to me at all, if we hadn't met in town by accident after.

[He'd like to think he wouldn't have done the latter, but he might have assumed the prince didn't want anything to do with him after that... He couldn't really be sure, now. Ferran tilts his head in thought, quiet for a moment. Susato hasn't shown any indication of it if she feels this way, but...]

... Does it bother you at all that I wasn't honest about him?