Within and Without

[Foxglove]

The question did cause Gen's mind to go into overdrive for a little while as she feverishly pondered how to appropriately answer. The smoking was something that helped her quite a lot with that, as it allowed her to waste time pretending that she couldn't answer because of the smoke. "Signora, you insult me," she said daintily, not wanting to sound rude, but rather state a simple truth about the matter. "I can assure you, the question was simply born from a sense of diligent duty." Gen was used to a rather rough treatment when it came to Enma, though she did owe her quite a lot, and so it would be quite graceless to be ungrateful, and Gen hadn't been raised this way. Honour and dignity had been important values she had been taught, and those two eventually led to her seeking the Royal Navy until she got wounded and discharged.

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