( how can you ask me that? he wants to say, the words thick on his tongue, heavy as he swallows them down. he reads the conversation again and again, an ache burning in his chest. they're not so dissimilar, he thinks, set and wanda.
and perhaps it's because shanks would have done something dangerously foolish if he hadn't had armand's company the last week — perhaps it's that shared grief, the shared communion, that allows him to be swayed. perhaps, too, because it's easier. because he's tired and he wants this to be over. (because when it's over and done with, koby will return to them.) because, most importantly, it satisfies that impossible condition: koby, avenged; set, appeased.
after a long moment of weighing set's words, his admission, his argument, shanks eventually decides: )
Wanda, then. ( setting the phone down, shifting to take set's face in his hand. ) Not one ever named your killer in the days you were gone. ( only argued about set's character in defense of someone else. ) I would see that rectified before the trials end.
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and perhaps it's because shanks would have done something dangerously foolish if he hadn't had armand's company the last week — perhaps it's that shared grief, the shared communion, that allows him to be swayed. perhaps, too, because it's easier. because he's tired and he wants this to be over. (because when it's over and done with, koby will return to them.) because, most importantly, it satisfies that impossible condition: koby, avenged; set, appeased.
after a long moment of weighing set's words, his admission, his argument, shanks eventually decides: )
Wanda, then. ( setting the phone down, shifting to take set's face in his hand. ) Not one ever named your killer in the days you were gone. ( only argued about set's character in defense of someone else. ) I would see that rectified before the trials end.