[Aventurine is quiet, letting what Veritas says sink and then turning it over. Of course he did all of those things, Veritas was a person, even if he wasn't human. Only a monster would treat him any differently.

But that's what the sculptor did. And that's what other people might have done.]

You know, I was just thinking to myself that I might be falling for you, too. I wasn't going to say anything since, well, you're still new to all of this.