[The look he gives him in response is at best unreadable and at worst paranoid. That's weird. He'd said something similar to Eren literally the day before, though more "getting around and knowing what you're two are two different things." Could the same really be applied to what's true and what isn't true?] You love gray areas, don't you?

[That's the part where it gets dangerous when you take into account the little brushes and telling signs. Everything and everyone started with white lies. People fooled themselves enough to thinking they weren't really lying if it wasn't hurting anybody. Did those count as lies?

He almost pouts at the remark, leaning back on his hands and staring at Loki for a moment while thinking of something clever to say about the spire. Something to convince him...]

This spire's better than the other nine spires, but there's no real reason for its haphazard interior design. [Half a truth and half a lie sounded convincing enough.]