[ Kitty's hackles go up. She can't help herself. Her days of lying about her identity and intentions are behind her, and nothing he's said is anything she wouldn't admit readily to others. But she doesn't like having someone turn an eye on her like that. She's from a place where when someone presents the facts of your identity and biography like that, it's probably because they're sitting across from you at an interrogation table, trying to prove how much they know about you to make it seem inevitable that they'll find out more so why not just talk now and spare the bother of torture? She can't read that and not feel hostile - or maybe afraid.
But she reins in her emotions. She answers with brittle politeness. ]
Nothing you have said is incorrect, Mr Holmes - with the exception of one thing.
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But she reins in her emotions. She answers with brittle politeness. ]
Nothing you have said is incorrect, Mr Holmes - with the exception of one thing.