He didn't know if he'd offended her or just made things worse, but from the way she moved past him, he had a feeling it was one of the two. You don't have to apologize, Bran thought irritably, but he bit his tongue and managed once again to keep silent.
The urge to laugh was there, but he swallowed it down and kept his voice relatively serious. "Just because they seem like they don't care doesn't mean that they actually don't." Didn't Lotte know that people were the best deceivers of all? They excelled at lying unlike any other species, and pretending was a part of their nature. Even he had to realize that applied to him too. "But I guess it's one of those things that can never really be resolved," he added, sensing that the subject really wasn't going anywhere.