It's Lord of the Flies in my mind tonight
The thing about answers is you have to ask questions in order to get them, you actually have to say what you’re thinking. Running away and making assumptions gets you jack shit - except for maybe quietly simmering resentment.
“Bold of you to assume we don’t have one or more already,” the Queen quips back with a sharp, fanged snort. But therein lies the rub, doesn’t it - he doesn’t know much about them. Her. And vice versa. For all he knows she could be the black sheep of the family.
“I see. An understandable feeling.” For a moment she seems to relent and perhaps be more empathetic than Anden deserves. Alas, it’s just for a moment. “But -” Here Wessex dramatically pauses and puts up a finger, perhaps a little more condescending than she should be, “That’s about the current situation, not about me, and doesn’t explain not wanting to introduce yourself. Unless you blame me for this.”
And if he does happen to blame just her for the existence of a secret organization that wants to kill the Ascended, well - she has all the time in the world tobrainwash educate him in her typically overbearing fashion, nitpicking semantics until he sees the error of his ways.
“Bold of you to assume we don’t have one or more already,” the Queen quips back with a sharp, fanged snort. But therein lies the rub, doesn’t it - he doesn’t know much about them. Her. And vice versa. For all he knows she could be the black sheep of the family.
“I see. An understandable feeling.” For a moment she seems to relent and perhaps be more empathetic than Anden deserves. Alas, it’s just for a moment. “But -” Here Wessex dramatically pauses and puts up a finger, perhaps a little more condescending than she should be, “That’s about the current situation, not about me, and doesn’t explain not wanting to introduce yourself. Unless you blame me for this.”
And if he does happen to blame just her for the existence of a secret organization that wants to kill the Ascended, well - she has all the time in the world to
