[ instantly, his face takes on a new sort of coldness: eyes narrow, smirking lips thin, features freeze into a mask. ]
Ah? [ it's a dismissive, nonchalant sort of sound, but there is the slightest, subtlest edge to his voice that shows a shade of how well-placed her comment truly was. ] Yes, there is such a possibility, but I do not consider it particularly probable.
[ there are exceptions, of course— certain individuals that encounter less difficulty, certain individuals that he has warned before not to betray his trust. and how he resents that trust, for it is something that he never wished or meant to place in them to begin with. ]