See, and from everything Prompto had said about Noctis, that was the sort of reaction Nina would expect from Noctis.

"I'm going to worry about it anyway," Nina said, since that was... the easiest part about all of that, where everything he said hurt. "You're my friend. I care about you. If your future is potentially going to be horrifically terrible then I'm going to want to help."

But this conversation was telling Nina that, really, if she needed his help on anything, maybe she wouldn't ask him. If he, like, found out she needed help with the stuff she was going behind Vette's back to work on... well, she wasn't going to tell him now.

"I didn't say much to them," she said, since he made it sound like she had. Nina dug out her phone. "You can see the message if you want. It's not that I don't trust you, it's that I want to help. As for mentioning the visit that..."

Nina blew out her cheeks.

"That wasn't so we could, like, babysit you or anything. Or because I don't trust you. It was partly because I'm curious about your world but also because, like, Vette and I were talking about you and your bros and how... ilke, maybe you were ashamed of us or something, since we--mostly Vette--haven't even met them through, like, when you're gaming. I mean, I don't game, but Vette does, and that just... stuck, I guess."

And... really... none of this conversation was making her feel like he wasn't ashamed of her.