[A pause follows, as deliberate and carefully calculated as the look of surprise stealing across his features.]
...surely you jest.
[But his smile falters as he searches her face, realization slowly dawning upon him.]
I should have known it.
[He hisses under his breath - and that he had indeed expected from his bitterest enemy. Their exchange had been too calm, too laden with pleasantries to have been without its share of trickery on both ends, he had figured. With a snort, he grimly glances aside.]
[Action, March 1st]
...surely you jest.
[But his smile falters as he searches her face, realization slowly dawning upon him.]
I should have known it.
[He hisses under his breath - and that he had indeed expected from his bitterest enemy. Their exchange had been too calm, too laden with pleasantries to have been without its share of trickery on both ends, he had figured. With a snort, he grimly glances aside.]