"You and me both." Altima smiled then giggled a bit.  "I've lived around knights and soldiers all my life so I tend to act like them for the sake of appearances." she confessed and turned more fully to Arioch for a moment and thought about what she said.  Ally knew the elves had tremendous pride in themselves, the same as humans but they weren't all that different if you looked at it from all the angles.<br/><br/>They all lived with similar concerns, ambitions and problems, they just refused to see that for the most part.  Altima extended her hand to Arioch and nodded. "Trust and the like are consistent with a bridge.  To build one, you have to first throw the rope over the river." She said. Her gesture was magnanimous and symbolic of what she was talking about.  She smiled a somewhat flaky, but pretty, rueful grin though:<br/><br/>"But I'm terribly embarrassed that you found out my little secret like this." She said candidly, opening herself up to Arioch so that they could better understand each other's personality and quirks.  The knight had noticed that the elf was reticent and unwilling for the most part to open up, having a kind of grim defensiveness about her that lent itself out to nobody.  Fearing mistrust and betrayal is probably what had caused that, but Altima hoped to help her by being her friend and companion; to show the elven general that not all humans were pigheaded and selfish and prone to betraying someone at the drop of a hat.