It isn't the fact that this question would be considered blunt and terribly personal by the vast majority of normal people that bothers him. This is the question that he would ask, after all. It's the fact that--somehow--no one has ever thought to ask it before. So, it's not something that he has ever had to tell anyone.
He hardly admits to himself that it had happened, let alone admitting it out loud to someone else. For how impassive he is, the fact that he doesn't catch himself glancing off to the side is telling.
Lying isn't an option, though. It only takes a few seconds of deliberation for him to know that he wouldn't get away with avoiding or clouding the truth here. It's a gamble that he has no chance of winning.
So, another surgical admission (which is in no way similar to ripping off a bandage).
"Once... But I was young. And it had been my only chance at freedom."
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He hardly admits to himself that it had happened, let alone admitting it out loud to someone else. For how impassive he is, the fact that he doesn't catch himself glancing off to the side is telling.
Lying isn't an option, though. It only takes a few seconds of deliberation for him to know that he wouldn't get away with avoiding or clouding the truth here. It's a gamble that he has no chance of winning.
So, another surgical admission (which is in no way similar to ripping off a bandage).
"Once... But I was young. And it had been my only chance at freedom."