“BUT I WAS TOLD LYING IS BAD.“ Jack doesn’t know how to lie yet, it’s not in his body to do so properly, though he had seen the Winchesters do so all the time. He had also begun to learn to omit the truth, something he preferred over straight out lying. “Lying can hurt people.”
"Truth can hurt people, too.” Hell, learning the literal and oftentimes fatal reality of monsters and demons and angels had torn her away from any possibility of living in the peaceful complacency of a ‘normal’ life. Blue eyes remained averted, finding temporary focus on worrying her mostly eaten bowl of cereal with a spoon. She didn’t often drop by the bunker, but there was no denying that it was one of the very few places that she could hide out without any questions asked. One of the only places in the world where she felt truly safe.
And now, the apparent home to a kid named Jack who was radiating waves of celestial power like an overheated Chernobyl reactor.
"I mean, just like― most of the time you’re gonna set people off, I guess. Tell them the whole truth and they’ll think you’re some kind of weirdo.” She fished a scant spoonful of cheerios out of the bowl, chewing them a bit too intently to maintain any real front of casual conversation. Small talk wasn’t exactly her strong suit, and an old nagging voice that must have once sounded like her mother insisted she was being rude.
She couldn’t help it. It was― eerie, the way Jack talked. The curious but somehow alien look in his eyes. Almost like...