His smile fades but just slightly, it's more of a flicker in his expression than anything else before he straights his back and lifts his chin up a bit. "Don't you mean the town's cruelty?" he retorts, tone carefully neutral. Of course he'd cared, he doesn't know how he could possibly not have cared that he'd come home to find the word 'MURDERER' painted on his property more than once or that he'd received hate mail quite consistently for almost an entire year before it had started dwindling down or that there are still some people who look at him like he's a disease that has no cure.
It's easier to ignore it now just because he's had so much practice and also because there exist people in his life who give him significantly better things to think about. He's never been one to put much stock in other people's opinions of him, that much is true, but yes, he'd cared. He's cared quite a lot.
"I do understand what you're getting at," he tells her, nodding his head a bit. "Oftentimes, it's all that's expected of us, to tell each other that our days are going well and that we're doing just fine and that's that. So if you tell me you're miserable when I ask, I certainly won't hold it against you. I can promise you that much."
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Date: 2014-09-15 07:15 am (UTC)It's easier to ignore it now just because he's had so much practice and also because there exist people in his life who give him significantly better things to think about. He's never been one to put much stock in other people's opinions of him, that much is true, but yes, he'd cared. He's cared quite a lot.
"I do understand what you're getting at," he tells her, nodding his head a bit. "Oftentimes, it's all that's expected of us, to tell each other that our days are going well and that we're doing just fine and that's that. So if you tell me you're miserable when I ask, I certainly won't hold it against you. I can promise you that much."