[ it's a good question, and one Abel is still trying to work out - decide - himself.

he's heaving a quiet exhale, gaze shifting to some indistinct point on the carpets beyond his feet; it's clear he is giving this some due thought before he manages to answer her. ]

The two of them-- Gen and Dokja?-- have been at one another's throats from the beginning. I think Gen decided that outing Dokja wasn't enough... painting him as one of the Regent's - someone completely unsympathetic in Godsblood - was the best way to hurt him without being able to resort to violence.

[ and... it had worked. Dokja had been extremely dejected by the time Abel had found him in his home; the damage had been done. ]