She wants to believe that. She wants to let that guide her, to trust that ignorance is bliss and that he will never find out. Maybe Jack is even right, and this fear of discovery which has plagued her since Jack's appearance is only another artefact of her guilt.
But she knows Faramir, and she knows that he values truth highly, perhaps the most highly. It's hard to reconcile that with lying to him, even lying by omission. There's nobody in the world she's less willing to keep things from.
"It meant nothing," she agrees at last, and sighs, looking ahead to the mountains in the distance. "In Panem, it meant nothing. When I was returned, it meant nothing. But with you here..." She shrugs, not looking at him. "I cannot say."
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Date: 2016-03-23 09:47 pm (UTC)But she knows Faramir, and she knows that he values truth highly, perhaps the most highly. It's hard to reconcile that with lying to him, even lying by omission. There's nobody in the world she's less willing to keep things from.
"It meant nothing," she agrees at last, and sighs, looking ahead to the mountains in the distance. "In Panem, it meant nothing. When I was returned, it meant nothing. But with you here..." She shrugs, not looking at him. "I cannot say."