While she might have perhaps misinterpreted him as being dim in this, Vitali was not stupid. He just couldn't have imagined that she was working on an opposite side. Either way, though, there was always the risk that he might eventually learn something about what she had been doing.<br/><br/>Regardless, it didn't seem like that was the case at the moment. The fact that they were about to share the meal together was just going to serve to make it even more unlikely that he would have thought that she were up to anything at all.<br/><br/>In fact, just a moment ago he had actually been blushing at her.<br/><br/>With a roll of his eyes, he turned back toward her and nudged her with the back of his elbow had he been so allowed to do so. "What do you mean by that? Don't you think that it's entirely possible that you might have some detestable habits that I don't know of myself?"<br/><br/>Of course, this made him laugh, perhaps in spite of the obvious reasons that made this ironic that he wasn't at all aware of.<br/><br/>Soon enough, though, her voice was sharing a bit of kindness with him anyway that would have made him forget about anything else he might have been thinking about. "I would do anything for you, just like I always promised, Mariya."<br/><br/>Eventually, though, he was tasked with ordering for them, and he spent a few moments doing just that. He realized that having been away from home might have made her no longer comfortable with that sort of thing. Of course, as a result, he didn't find it to be a strange request at all.<br/><br/>"I hope that you trust me enough to actually lie when you don't like the food."<br/><br/>He smirked and offered a laugh, since it was meant to be a joke anyway.<br/><br/>"Did you have a taste for the red or black caviar?"<br/><br/>Unlike where she had been living, caviar was looked at more as a staple here than a simple luxury. Therefore, he didn't think of his question as anything unusual at all.<br/><br/>Sighing, he actually hadn't even had thought of the fact that it might have seemed like something unusual to her. Vitali honestly wasn't all that familiar with what life was like back where she was. He had imagined more of a myth than anything else.