[There's a long silent pause here where he seriously, thoroughly considers throwing his sending crystal across the room.
But they might be fragile and he's not sure he'll get another one if he confesses to having broken it deliberately because he couldn't handle his cousin backtalking him.
...And...besides, Van apologized. So there's that.]
It was. But--apology accepted.
[He's going to hold on to that, cling to it tight and remind himself that what Van does he does because he cares too much, not too little. That way he might get through this.]
I wanted--facts, that's all. Reasoned speculation if you had it. Some kind of map for what I've gotten into here. [Maybe if he's direct about it this won't happen in the future. Maybe. He hopes.] Not the rest of this that we've beaten to death before.
[Breathe in, breathe out. He heard that "home" and he lets it go because now isn't the time to go after Vandelin's vulnerabilities instead of the weaknesses in his arguments.] "If they have to be."
Who's "we," Van? Who gets a voice in this and when? D'you intend to hear us out about this before you install us back in our voluntary Circles or just check in on how we're finding the accommodations after all's said and done?
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But they might be fragile and he's not sure he'll get another one if he confesses to having broken it deliberately because he couldn't handle his cousin backtalking him.
...And...besides, Van apologized. So there's that.]
It was. But--apology accepted.
[He's going to hold on to that, cling to it tight and remind himself that what Van does he does because he cares too much, not too little. That way he might get through this.]
I wanted--facts, that's all. Reasoned speculation if you had it. Some kind of map for what I've gotten into here. [Maybe if he's direct about it this won't happen in the future. Maybe. He hopes.] Not the rest of this that we've beaten to death before.
[Breathe in, breathe out. He heard that "home" and he lets it go because now isn't the time to go after Vandelin's vulnerabilities instead of the weaknesses in his arguments.] "If they have to be."
Who's "we," Van? Who gets a voice in this and when? D'you intend to hear us out about this before you install us back in our voluntary Circles or just check in on how we're finding the accommodations after all's said and done?