how we are built

GIDEON

Be careful my darling
Be careful of what it takes

It seemed Deimos was able to accurately guess the contents of his sermon - not surprising, given how Gideon had started this conversation. Had it been any other topic he would have found his own obsession concerning, but with the world at threat and their very souls to lose, single-mindedness was the only path possible.

"Not unnecessarily so. Or at least, I didn't think so." He said with a loose roll of his shoulders, glancing back to Deimos before stepping down to a lower level of the path. "Do you not think it hypocritical that the leader of this place...or at least, the last leader, I don't know much about this new Queen - that he was blessed by Safrin, loved and cared for...yet chose to bind himself to an Ascended?" Contempt dripped from Gideon's words and if Deimos listened close enough, he may have been able to pick up on the slightest bit of envy.

"I said much the same of what I said to you. That they have let the wolf into their field and don't even know. That the Ascended guard-dog the old leader had was ruining any chance they had of salvation." Gritting his teeth as he thought of Nate, the way the large man had gotten in his face, he shook his head. "They don't want to hear truth, only platitudes about friendship and how we are not all so different."

What I've seen so far
The good ones always seems to break