[He shouldn't have brought it up if he didn't want her to ask about it.]

That's a shame. I'm sorry to hear that.

[And she is. Her face falls a bit as she goes back to stroking the bird's wild crest of feathers.]

I know that we are not that close, Messer, but I don't find it very easy to get along with a great many people, unlike my brother or Kaname.