[chuuya blinks at that-- the lock is unexpected, as is its inscription, and it's not that his face is hard to read so much as it doesn't seem to be able to settle on a particular expression.
there's a long stretch of silence before chuuya says anything else, just watching baren twirl that lock around his finger.]
You know that's asking a lot without telling me the question first, Baren.
[how much he trusts baren is forever a question he's asking himself-- but he's never acted against them. hasn't acted against chuuya, hasn't leaked any of the things he's been able to find out (to chuuya's knowledge.)
he's still not on their side. but chuuya will at least hear him out, with all the history they have.]
no subject
there's a long stretch of silence before chuuya says anything else, just watching baren twirl that lock around his finger.]
You know that's asking a lot without telling me the question first, Baren.
[how much he trusts baren is forever a question he's asking himself-- but he's never acted against them. hasn't acted against chuuya, hasn't leaked any of the things he's been able to find out (to chuuya's knowledge.)
he's still not on their side. but chuuya will at least hear him out, with all the history they have.]
-fine. Ask it.