[ difficult? she sounds like rika. sticking to those happy days is the easiest thing imaginable, after all. it's moving on that was hard. as for that little insult... maybe she would've been insulted, some time ago. but right now? it gets a giggle out of her - polite, performative, covering her mouth with one delicate hand. ]

It truly does, doesn't it? [ she doesn't mimic anna's pose. she reclines even more, if anything, uncrossing and recrossing her legs the other way around. ] Perhaps an example might help you understand.

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Miss Anna, I've already given you a secret of my own. What about you? Do you have any secrets you hold dear?