Given the summoner's previously displayed coping mechanisms, Jigano might not have been so certain that the family hadn't done its damage to his friend, but only time would tell. So why did you join her academy and put yourself back under her power? he asked curiously. He had thought Loren the one person strong enough to avoid the lure of the former-Tyrant's play for a personal army of Abandoned, but finding out that he had joined her anyways wasn't the strongest argument he could have made that he refused to bend to his cousin's will.
He glanced over at the drumming fingers, smile turning sad. "His sister, one he loved dearly... one who disappeared before the Outlander influx began. It's... not impossible that her soul is held by the LongNight monsters," he added quietly. "He doesn't speak of her much, and I'm willing to wait until he's ready." Rory was a man of long silences and few words, bright smiles and dark moods, and a past that he held close to his chest and shared only in occasional and often unexpected trickles.
Not unlike his mate's tendency to hold his own past close to his chest.
Jigano winced at his friend's annoyance, not intending to have brought up a touchy subject. "Ah, sorry," he murmured. "I suppose governing takes a lot of time. I've barely seen Rex since I joined her government, too. How busy has the Infirmary been since you opened it?"
He glanced over at the drumming fingers, smile turning sad. "His sister, one he loved dearly... one who disappeared before the Outlander influx began. It's... not impossible that her soul is held by the LongNight monsters," he added quietly. "He doesn't speak of her much, and I'm willing to wait until he's ready." Rory was a man of long silences and few words, bright smiles and dark moods, and a past that he held close to his chest and shared only in occasional and often unexpected trickles.
Not unlike his mate's tendency to hold his own past close to his chest.
Jigano winced at his friend's annoyance, not intending to have brought up a touchy subject. "Ah, sorry," he murmured. "I suppose governing takes a lot of time. I've barely seen Rex since I joined her government, too. How busy has the Infirmary been since you opened it?"
