i wonder which will get you killed faster - your loyalty
He flinched slightly at the squeak for the sheer cacophony of it, and then the unknown – uncertain how to gauge the reaction. Given the outliers of Talyson and Hotaru’s responses, the notions could have lingered anywhere. And though he would carry on regardless, he was still steeling himself for any range of nuances and expressions. “Yes,” with an affirmed nod; pondering if her surprise had merely been because it’d been so long after everything else.
Nor did he expect the sudden withdrawal at the mention of Chuy – a dedicated being to his constituents, loyal, steady, stalwart to a fault. The rue and apprehension caused his brows to furrow, the unknown parameters more of a bewilderment than anything else; perhaps they’d both stunned one another in the revolutions and contortions of change.
Her reasons made sense, and that made his heart hurt, pulsing about his ribcage. Swallowing down a trace of bile, and knowing what it meant to be left behind, his jaw clenched slightly. “Will you write to him again now?” Or maybe it was as she’d said – a starting over point, to let him linger back in the doldrums of the unknown. But even that seemed harsh.
Nor did he expect the sudden withdrawal at the mention of Chuy – a dedicated being to his constituents, loyal, steady, stalwart to a fault. The rue and apprehension caused his brows to furrow, the unknown parameters more of a bewilderment than anything else; perhaps they’d both stunned one another in the revolutions and contortions of change.
Her reasons made sense, and that made his heart hurt, pulsing about his ribcage. Swallowing down a trace of bile, and knowing what it meant to be left behind, his jaw clenched slightly. “Will you write to him again now?” Or maybe it was as she’d said – a starting over point, to let him linger back in the doldrums of the unknown. But even that seemed harsh.
or your stubbornness?
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