[ Is he trying to dupe Homelander? To lure him in for some ulterior scheme, ploy or plot? To jeopardize the fragile, tenuous shape of friendship between them?
Set is many horrible things, but a liar is not one of them. Not to others. ( Yet, a great liar to himself. ) ]
Not with purpose. Not you. I am only saying, so as not to break your heart.
[ If Homelander feels lured, that... is the affect of a god who truly believes he drives men to madness. ]
[ That, at least, is a relief. Even that further intimation of softness, that his heart could be broken at all (though of course it could, has been, over and over), is surprisingly welcome, for the fact that he knows Set's strength to be great, that he would care at all about doing him any harm.
He was a fool to doubt it. ]
it's okay.
[ Because he's not really sure how else to put the way he feels into words. That he doesn't think Set would warn him like this if he actually meant to hurt him, that it's a risk everyone takes in caring about anything at all. That he was born to be indestructible. ]
[ Of all people, Set would understand Homelander most intimately — the pride and pleasure and violence and burden of power, and the fragility of the heart. An indestructible body, to some, is a challenge and not a deterrent. ]
I am glad to know of your boy, too. We will get home to them.
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Set is many horrible things, but a liar is not one of them. Not to others. ( Yet, a great liar to himself. ) ]
Not with purpose. Not you.
I am only saying, so as not to break your heart.
[ If Homelander feels lured, that... is the affect of a god who truly believes he drives men to madness. ]
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He was a fool to doubt it. ]
it's okay.
[ Because he's not really sure how else to put the way he feels into words. That he doesn't think Set would warn him like this if he actually meant to hurt him, that it's a risk everyone takes in caring about anything at all. That he was born to be indestructible. ]
and thanks.
for telling me about anubis.
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I am glad to know of your boy, too.
We will get home to them.