[Ears drooped at the thinly veiled accusation, and Lorenz heaved a sigh in disappointment.]
... Is it really that hard for you to believe that someone wants to get to know you without any ulterior motive?
[Perhaps the idea was too difficult to grasp for someone so unused to trust. Perhaps Lorenz tried too hard. But with Hubert's dislike for tea and socializing Lorenz was left with little option but to try to meet Hubert where he was.
In that forbidding environment, with all the cloak and dagger tactics that they employed as people who often found trust to be too difficult to consider as an option for anything in their lives.]
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Date: 2020-03-21 11:16 am (UTC)... Is it really that hard for you to believe that someone wants to get to know you without any ulterior motive?
[Perhaps the idea was too difficult to grasp for someone so unused to trust. Perhaps Lorenz tried too hard. But with Hubert's dislike for tea and socializing Lorenz was left with little option but to try to meet Hubert where he was.
In that forbidding environment, with all the cloak and dagger tactics that they employed as people who often found trust to be too difficult to consider as an option for anything in their lives.]