He didn't flinch away from his hand and stared back at him again. That moment of uncertainty, fleeting thought it was, vanished again. Covered up like everything else he kept buried in that deep pool, anything that could be used as a weapon to be drowned and left at the bottom of it. ]
You're right that they shouldn't. [ Something he would know intimately as well. Someone like that who had a weakness was someone who could be manipulated. Easily. ] Though, you did, didn't you?
In my experience, Vergilius... [ He hedged in his tone, eyes darted away, before they looked back at him. As if he were trying to look away for a brief moment, if just to β find the Words. It is a vulnerable thought, that he voices. ] Sometimes it is not our choice, to find that connection. We must merely find a way to protect it by any means necessary.
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[ Walk in his footsteps, it sounded like.
He didn't flinch away from his hand and stared back at him again. That moment of uncertainty, fleeting thought it was, vanished again. Covered up like everything else he kept buried in that deep pool, anything that could be used as a weapon to be drowned and left at the bottom of it. ]
You're right that they shouldn't. [ Something he would know intimately as well. Someone like that who had a weakness was someone who could be manipulated. Easily. ] Though, you did, didn't you?
In my experience, Vergilius... [ He hedged in his tone, eyes darted away, before they looked back at him. As if he were trying to look away for a brief moment, if just to β find the Words. It is a vulnerable thought, that he voices. ] Sometimes it is not our choice, to find that connection. We must merely find a way to protect it by any means necessary.