The flatness of her tone made the question feel like a trap, but if it was he couldn't guess her endgame. At least she hadn't pretended not to know who Don Juan meant by him... but that meant she wasn't trying to hedge so carefully that someone overhearing them would suspect her entirely innocent of whatever he was talking about. Her question wasn't a performative one for some potential hidden audience, then. It was for him. Was it designed to trick him into over-explaining?

"I don't know," he hedged. He shifted his weight and slid one hand to his opposite arm, ruffling his sleeve. "I don't know what you two talk about."

After he said it he wondered if maybe this hadn't been the trap, and he hadn't wandered directly into it. It placed her in the advantage once again. Through mere silence she might imply that she did know what the two men talked about, that Dean told her quite a bit where he told Don Juan nearly nothing. Was that the game, positioning herself as the closer partner of the pair of them? Don Juan would be hard-pressed to belief it, given his history with Dean... but he didn't really know Hanna's history with Dean, because he hadn't asked, so how could he compare? Perhaps they had been bosom companions from the very moment that Don Juan had walked out of Hudson's house in 1893. When he had discussed this with Hudson back in January, Hudson had volunteered to break things off with Hanna if Don Juan requested it — but that might have been a bluff, or maybe she didn't know that. If she didn't know, Don Juan certainly wasn't going to tell her... but he wished he knew what her game was.

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