[Lily just stares at him a little while longer. She reads the words, she absorbs them, but... he's not saying everything, that much is clear. He's not being fully honest. She know show that is, and she knows how hard it is to press on. Necessary sometimes, but when those memories are fresh...

She pulls back a little, though her eyes are misty.]

That... that's entirely possible...

[She sighs.] No, I've had some sense of Cologne before... you're probably right... I don't imagine he did, but...

Senketsu. Don't look at such a thing as an inevitability, okay? Even if... you understand that sort of thing...