[She doesn't want his apologies. That isn't why she is here... not anymore. And even if things were still the same between them, she wouldn't have wanted them then, either.
Besides... she doesn't want to talk about Barnabas right now, of all people. There is still that loyalty that lingers even in his absence, and that part of her stings just thinking about it. Stings when she remembers how afraid she had felt when she saw him here, when she realized what he would do to her if he found that she had lost Garuda, stings when she remembers that he is gone.
He can think it all he likes, but it was never him that she truly wanted.]
Cidolfus...
[Amber eyes meet his again, and they are wide and searching.]
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Shut up.
[She doesn't want his apologies. That isn't why she is here... not anymore. And even if things were still the same between them, she wouldn't have wanted them then, either.
Besides... she doesn't want to talk about Barnabas right now, of all people. There is still that loyalty that lingers even in his absence, and that part of her stings just thinking about it. Stings when she remembers how afraid she had felt when she saw him here, when she realized what he would do to her if he found that she had lost Garuda, stings when she remembers that he is gone.
He can think it all he likes, but it was never him that she truly wanted.]
Cidolfus...
[Amber eyes meet his again, and they are wide and searching.]
... Is it true, then?