[silence isn't bad. or maybe she's used to this. at least this is almost a comforting sort of silence that comes from knowing someone's still nearby rather than the deafening silence of knowing you're alone and ignored.

but she tilts her head a bit to the first part, because she's kind of like "yes this makes sense" while also going "okay this man did somehow get married though" but she does have enough sense not to point that part out. it's a little more to fill in the puzzle of who daan is.]

Maybe I just don't want to make mistakes with people who matter. [a little bit of honesty, because aerith tends to put more pressure on herself than anything. her idea of being selfish really is like visiting the parents of a boy she used to love and introducing herself and learning more about his upbringing when nobody's heard from said-boy for five years. she'd thought of herself as selfish for wanting to satisfy that curiosity, for not thinking about how it would make his parents feel. and here, she sometimes wonders if she's going to push some of these people too far by being as curious as she is and being as stubborn as she can be sometimes. these are all fun things for later. all in all, she doesn't disagree.]

But it is hard sometimes. I can't say it isn't. I don't want to be the person who sends a person backwards just because of something I've said. But I don't want to stop trying to reach people either.