Yeah, that's pretty fair. Not exactly the first thing that'd be on your mind.
Oh, yeah, it's bound to take some getting used to when you're new to being told that - but you're right, the praise *is* effusive, and it *should* be difficult to argue with, because it's true. :)
Depends. It could be called "strange" in the sense of being unusual, sure - but there's always a degree of subjectivity to this stuff. Sometimes individual preferences break through what someone's been told they *should* think; on top of that, Dimitri has known you for a really long time, hasn't he? Almost half your lives. So for all that time his culture was telling him to see your features as "other", his seeing you every day, knowing you personally, could have combatted that.
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Oh, yeah, it's bound to take some getting used to when you're new to being told that - but you're right, the praise *is* effusive, and it *should* be difficult to argue with, because it's true. :)
Depends. It could be called "strange" in the sense of being unusual, sure - but there's always a degree of subjectivity to this stuff. Sometimes individual preferences break through what someone's been told they *should* think; on top of that, Dimitri has known you for a really long time, hasn't he? Almost half your lives. So for all that time his culture was telling him to see your features as "other", his seeing you every day, knowing you personally, could have combatted that.