Chapitre 141: Reflections

Honesty is the best policy. That's usually what the moral and the just people keep telling us to do, that the only right way is the honest way. In a perfect world, I'm sure that's what everybody would be doing.

But in this imperfect world, lying was by far so much easier than telling the truth.

Here though… in this case… what do you do when a lie would hurt just as much as the truth?

Ash's gaze towards mine was earnest, sincere… if there ever was a need to explain to somebody just what complete and total faith in a person looks like - all I would have to do was simply point at her and say 'There you go'.

Betraying that faith… breaking her trust… 'No, it wasn't you'... those words could so easily roll off my tongue and I wouldn't even put it past me to say it while also wearing the most reassuring smile on my face.