"You have, you great fool," she repeats, wording the insult like it is his name - and indeed, she had taken to calling him and the absent others similar and worse names, over the millennium .
"Running off, leaving those of us left to worry and loneliness. Selfish."
Fingers dig in harder, not releasing his limb even as he kneels. She is half tempted to haul him to his feet, one sibling bowing to another ringing wrong to her- but it is a small enough recompense for her ages of abandonment.
"Alpha Trion. Alchemist. Quintus. Even Amalgamous and fragments of Nexus - all I have spoken to before you. What excuse have you?"
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Date: 2014-08-29 09:02 am (UTC)It's easy to admit, bitter though it is.
"You have, you great fool," she repeats, wording the insult like it is his name - and indeed, she had taken to calling him and the absent others similar and worse names, over the millennium .
"Running off, leaving those of us left to worry and loneliness. Selfish."
Fingers dig in harder, not releasing his limb even as he kneels. She is half tempted to haul him to his feet, one sibling bowing to another ringing wrong to her- but it is a small enough recompense for her ages of abandonment.
"Alpha Trion. Alchemist. Quintus. Even Amalgamous and fragments of Nexus - all I have spoken to before you. What excuse have you?"