"If you failed to expect it, that simply means you need to train your sense of awareness." As if he wouldn't have been just as confused in her situation.

Her attempt to read the cover gets Jiu to pause and stare at it himself for a second, as if he hadn't actually been reading earlier. Which - let's face it - he hadn't. "...It does seem that way." He flips back to the beginning of the book, silently skims a bit, then: "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life....ah. It's a book about fools."