Do you really— No… You do believe that, don’t you.
[ She’d started to question it reflexively, but this is a conversation they’d had before. It’s kind of what had started… everything about why Silco disliked her so much, but she wants to say the same thing now. She wishes his world had been kinder to him. She wishes that he’d never had to experience things that made him feel like it was such an absolute, unchangeable truth that people were only kind when they got something out of it. ]
Then would you have preferred that I did let Voryn and Hayame take you?
[ Surely, he knows what that would have meant. It’s only his good fortune that his Shard had come to her, because he would have surely died otherwise. She believed it was something fated, since that’s just how things worked for gods, so she was destined to protect him in that moment. But would he really have preferred that wasn’t the case? ]
…I just don’t know what to do with you, Silco. The Shards make things so complicated. I don’t want you to be shattered. But you hurt people. I think you like hurting people. I thought maybe you should just be a Shard without a body and I could take care of you, but… That doesn’t seem to be the answer either.
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[ She’d started to question it reflexively, but this is a conversation they’d had before. It’s kind of what had started… everything about why Silco disliked her so much, but she wants to say the same thing now. She wishes his world had been kinder to him. She wishes that he’d never had to experience things that made him feel like it was such an absolute, unchangeable truth that people were only kind when they got something out of it. ]
Then would you have preferred that I did let Voryn and Hayame take you?
[ Surely, he knows what that would have meant. It’s only his good fortune that his Shard had come to her, because he would have surely died otherwise. She believed it was something fated, since that’s just how things worked for gods, so she was destined to protect him in that moment. But would he really have preferred that wasn’t the case? ]
…I just don’t know what to do with you, Silco. The Shards make things so complicated. I don’t want you to be shattered. But you hurt people. I think you like hurting people. I thought maybe you should just be a Shard without a body and I could take care of you, but… That doesn’t seem to be the answer either.