[ this conversation certainly says a lot about Noctis, in an odd, refreshing sort of way. ]

There's an art to subtlety. [ there's a distinct use to those words. ] There are always reasons to stay nebulous in meaning, especially when there is so much to lose. We are, after all, still surrounded in the center of a larger mystery: those who have displaced us have been less than straight-forward.

[ but Loki always left space in what he was saying, used words as a game. ]

Would you prefer the more literal approach?