[SE] Those We Lost

GIDEON

And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true

"Oh, excuse me. Less expensive than anything you really care about, then." Gideon jokingly corrected himself, gesturing vaguely as he tried to come up with more suitable words. The point was, she didn't need to give him her finest silvers for this job; the person he was making the lantern for hardly deserved that anyway.

Of course, she immediately asked who it was for. Supposing she had a point about Ludo wanting them to be personal, Gideon sighed and relinquished the information. "My brother. He's not dead, as far as I know, but he may as well be. I was thinking I could make it around the good memories I still have. Reading with him in our home study." When they had been young, Judah like a student he had been teaching in the ways of the Gods, that then had been new to him and exciting to share and feel superior in.

It did not strike Gideon that perhaps Judah did not enjoy those lectures as much.

"I'm planning to make the sides myself, which is why I'm just wanting a frame from yourself."

That's why I hold with all I have
That's why I hold