Ah, Rei. Meril didn't put enough investment into people to think less of them -- that would require effort she simply didn't care to put forth!

...Except, well, she was privately glad to have not complicated matters between the two of them. She might profess that her bandmates' feelings towards her meant nothing at all so long as they remained professional, but even Meril knew that wasn't entirely true.

"I might think less of you if you believed in nothing and no one but yourself and what you could see," she mused. "What exists beyond that, I do not know, but I am certain it is something."