even my darkness shines for you
He's shrugged away and if Ronin didn't think his husband was being unreasonable before (and he didn't), he's starting to now. Tempers are starting to flare on three sides, and as Remi steps forward Ronin plants himself directly between the two of them. "Don't you dare," he says quietly, though it isn't clear to whom. Perhaps the Star is just trying to prevent any further steps towards what will, ultimately, end in violence.
"If you didn't care how he felt, you'd not be trying to justify yourself," he points out to Remi in the end. "And if Sunjata was any good at articulating himself beyond getting angry and defensive, maybe he'd have been able to explain better in the first place. So maybe we all do ourselves a fucking favour and remember that someone hurt Vai, and it wasn't Sunjata."
"If you didn't care how he felt, you'd not be trying to justify yourself," he points out to Remi in the end. "And if Sunjata was any good at articulating himself beyond getting angry and defensive, maybe he'd have been able to explain better in the first place. So maybe we all do ourselves a fucking favour and remember that someone hurt Vai, and it wasn't Sunjata."
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