"What does that even mean?!" Anne asked, her eyebrows raised.
"No one really looks at the people they talk to unless they are interested in the person," Lianne explained patiently, "You had that sort of intensity that was beyond normal, yet you did not show any interest towards the person."
"If you're not interested yet taking such interest in the person can only mean that you were sizing the person up for some other reason than a romantic interest," Lianne said.
Anne didn't answer, taking what Lianne said to heart.
This had been a question that had been bugging her for the past two years but she never did gather the courage to ask her until now. Her 13-year-old self was rather proud, to be honest, and it felt bad to be asking someone she was tasked to protect, find her out.
She, who had been trained since she was 9, and she got discovered?
By someone who as normal?
