"Hmm..." Severus tilted his head slightly, looking at Remus. This conversation was slightly strange, unlike any other they'd had over the years.

"That might be so, although that is the mark of small talk, isn't it? You talk without really saying anything of consequence, but merely for the conversation's sake, for the company?" The truth was a bit too close to home, since he wasn't in the habit of small talk at all, and had found himself doing exactly that, with Lupin, on several occasions now.