[ the apparent aggravation has viren smirk in return, though it's a short-lived expression. viren watches as mikasa does... something, with the balls (it's not precisely how he'd been taught, no). he decides just to let it happen. you play hwo you want to play, mikasa. ]

[ his eyebrows lift in puzzlement at her answer, becoming something inquisitive. ]

[ and despite himself, his tone does become somewhat heated, ]

Even knowing, no matter what's happening there, there's nothing you can do to change that?

[ perhaps her reasoning is different; but upon discovering that the timeline continues even in his alleged absence, that he'd never left in the first place -- it all seemed defeating. pointless. ]

Being Fae, all you do is hasten your own death.