Clinging to the ruin of your broken home, too lost and hurting to carry your load
You know we all need someone to hold
You know we all need someone to hold
One shoulder shrugs slightly. "No, it was not my intent. But she would still know I did so because you told me to - even if that wouldn't encourage her, it wouldn't come off as sincere either." At least not in his eyes, if someone were to do the same to him in reverse. Harper wouldn't mind apologizing if it wasn't all so gnarled, a powerstruggle he didn't want to be part of and certainly doesn't want to continue having - with a nineteen-year-old at that.
Though he does raise an eyebrow, and then sighs. "Why should you have to be between this at all? It was political. Your involvement is entirely as her adopted aunt." And Harper thinks that only makes it worse, especially given Flora's constant threats of utilizing demigods - which Phoebe is. "If it was mediated, it couldn't be you." That would only feed Flora's power delusions in his opinion, and Harper doesn't want Phoebe to be involved in this in the first place. It stands too much of a risk of straining their own fragile new friendship, something Harper finds too precious to risk.
Though he does raise an eyebrow, and then sighs. "Why should you have to be between this at all? It was political. Your involvement is entirely as her adopted aunt." And Harper thinks that only makes it worse, especially given Flora's constant threats of utilizing demigods - which Phoebe is. "If it was mediated, it couldn't be you." That would only feed Flora's power delusions in his opinion, and Harper doesn't want Phoebe to be involved in this in the first place. It stands too much of a risk of straining their own fragile new friendship, something Harper finds too precious to risk.
