[With anyone but Myr, anyone else in the world, Van would have stayed completely silent in his outrage and bafflement, but Myr gets the benefit of hearing exactly how he feels about this pronouncement while he sorts it out himself.]
Let me just get this straight. You're upset about the idea of being 'installed back in a Circle.' Because you're afraid you won't be sufficiently consulted first. Because the word 'we' somehow, in your mind, implies exclusivity when I'm asking for your input.
I bring up the possibility of working together so that you don't have to give up all hope of regaining what you wanted all along, all your life, and this still somehow makes me the villain here?
[He doesn't like to raise his voice, not where anyone can hear him, but how can he not? There's a raw-edged pain to that last, and he can't hide it--not from Myr. He knows his cousin is a man of steady conviction, and yet he can't understand this as anything but moving the goalposts for punishment's sake. How is there no way for him to win here, even when he's desperately trying?]
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[With anyone but Myr, anyone else in the world, Van would have stayed completely silent in his outrage and bafflement, but Myr gets the benefit of hearing exactly how he feels about this pronouncement while he sorts it out himself.]
Let me just get this straight. You're upset about the idea of being 'installed back in a Circle.' Because you're afraid you won't be sufficiently consulted first. Because the word 'we' somehow, in your mind, implies exclusivity when I'm asking for your input.
I bring up the possibility of working together so that you don't have to give up all hope of regaining what you wanted all along, all your life, and this still somehow makes me the villain here?
[He doesn't like to raise his voice, not where anyone can hear him, but how can he not? There's a raw-edged pain to that last, and he can't hide it--not from Myr. He knows his cousin is a man of steady conviction, and yet he can't understand this as anything but moving the goalposts for punishment's sake. How is there no way for him to win here, even when he's desperately trying?]