Never you dead. Andraste's tits, Van, why would I--
[Momentum gutted, he gives up halfway through the sentence and slumps back into his own chair and silence.
There's a pitter-patter of tiny feet--tiny hands--and a querulous wuffle as Myr's nuglet emerges at last to see what all the noise and strange smells are about. She sets to work on the puddle of posca as her owner cradles his head in his hands, crystal dangling between his fingers.
Quietly, barely voiced:] I missed you so fucking much and I couldn't follow you. Even if I'd had eyes--I couldn't leave the Circle, not when th, the city wanted us gone so badly they'd starve us out with all our wounded. [With him among them.]
I couldn't. Not and leave Cas behind to that.
You had to choose the same way. Sometime. And I knew between me and freedom which way you'd go.
Shouldn't be angry about that. Shouldn't blame you. Some things, there's some things no one can expect anyone else to give up--but you were better at that than I am.
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[Momentum gutted, he gives up halfway through the sentence and slumps back into his own chair and silence.
There's a pitter-patter of tiny feet--tiny hands--and a querulous wuffle as Myr's nuglet emerges at last to see what all the noise and strange smells are about. She sets to work on the puddle of posca as her owner cradles his head in his hands, crystal dangling between his fingers.
Quietly, barely voiced:] I missed you so fucking much and I couldn't follow you. Even if I'd had eyes--I couldn't leave the Circle, not when th, the city wanted us gone so badly they'd starve us out with all our wounded. [With him among them.]
I couldn't. Not and leave Cas behind to that.
You had to choose the same way. Sometime. And I knew between me and freedom which way you'd go.
Shouldn't be angry about that. Shouldn't blame you. Some things, there's some things no one can expect anyone else to give up--but you were better at that than I am.