[ The silence doesn't bother him. Gustave's never minded long pauses and he doesn't sit with his eyes glued to the screen. There are things he needs to work on and he does that instead of wait, so when the responses do finally come in, he has to stop what he's doing and he reads, and he waits, and he thinks.

And the really funny thing is, he might have agreed with him about sending her back, saving her life, if Verso had bothered to ask him.

Gustave doesn't know that though, he just knows that he doesn't have a reason to trust him because none of this feels like he's ever going to get anything true out of him. Not really. ]

She hasn't said anything to me about her, so I think we're safe to assume probably not. Spoken, maybe, over these things, but nothing in person.

I know the why, though. It wasn't hard to figure out.

[ Sent a little while later. ]

Nice try though. It almost didn't sound completely like bullshit.