The surprise has her smile pinching, amused and apologetic, because well...
"Not as well as it could have, I'm sure, but I had found him rather intriguing to begin with."
She rests a hand on his arm to that wince, mentioning Jesse, and she remembers; she was the one who set Hanzo's nose again, after all.
"There was a peculiar sort of wine spill in the ship bringing us here from the moon, so I met him while he was rather intoxicated by it. He was speaking to you, as though you were there, though I didn't know he was your brother for a time yet. He was mourning you even still, worlds away and years later. By the time he properly looked at me, he called me a beautiful enchantress and a temptress." Already, she's laughing under her breath.
"He was quite polite once he sobered up a bit, but we were fast friends. We were getting along quite well before he seemed to realize who I was, and he tried to 'sabotage' it. It didn't work, of course. But he did tell me your name, and that he had murdered you with his hands— and I had to tell him otherwise, which he also seemed to know of. It's no easy thing, to be blind enough to miss his grief. Or his need for atonement. But I am glad that things are going well for you and him, and that he seems to be doing better."
The why is unspoken, but clear. It's because Genji's here and able to show him the side of himself he'd recovered, as well as the new side he'd forged in his recovery.
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"Not as well as it could have, I'm sure, but I had found him rather intriguing to begin with."
She rests a hand on his arm to that wince, mentioning Jesse, and she remembers; she was the one who set Hanzo's nose again, after all.
"There was a peculiar sort of wine spill in the ship bringing us here from the moon, so I met him while he was rather intoxicated by it. He was speaking to you, as though you were there, though I didn't know he was your brother for a time yet. He was mourning you even still, worlds away and years later. By the time he properly looked at me, he called me a beautiful enchantress and a temptress." Already, she's laughing under her breath.
"He was quite polite once he sobered up a bit, but we were fast friends. We were getting along quite well before he seemed to realize who I was, and he tried to 'sabotage' it. It didn't work, of course. But he did tell me your name, and that he had murdered you with his hands— and I had to tell him otherwise, which he also seemed to know of. It's no easy thing, to be blind enough to miss his grief. Or his need for atonement. But I am glad that things are going well for you and him, and that he seems to be doing better."
The why is unspoken, but clear. It's because Genji's here and able to show him the side of himself he'd recovered, as well as the new side he'd forged in his recovery.