That may or may not be the play, since the future is unpredictable as hell sometimes, but for now... It seems to be working out in Avan's favor, not telling Angeal everything. Just knowing he saw that conversation between him and his mother is enough to have him flinch a little bit.

The rest is.... a lot. Yeah.

But for now, just hearing that response about his mother has him pulling away from the uneasy itch of being known, and he frowns instead. "Listen - fine, don't forgive her, but that's my mother you're talking about. I'm not going to pretend I know everything about her and that project-" After all, well, it's not like he ever had a chance to ask her ever again. "-but she's.... she was always a good woman for as long as I knew her."

Which is why it hurt so much to learn the truth, to learn what happened, but... it's why it's complicated as well.