Not at what Liem says last -- Gen has no delusions about what fighting for the Kenoma means. Victory for the Kenoma will mean the death of everything and everyone. He's fine with that. If everything he'd ever known were to simply blink out of existence, here and now, he'd have no complaints. No, what makes his skin crawl is --
I suppose I was thinking that I knew better than the Regent did.
'Was.'
And now he doesn't.
Maybe even past the thin curtain of smoke that lingers between them, Liem can feel the way Gen's gaze sharpens at that, brow furrowed and eyes narrowing. There's a pointed pause before he speaks again. ]
And you've changed your mind, now. [ That much is a statement of fact. He doubts Liem would be out here, wandering about, if that lesson hadn't been impressed upon him. But now that he knows why Liem has been missing for so long, he can't help being all the more aware of how shitty Liem looks. Exhausted, drained. ] Doesn't seem like something that'd be easy to change your mind about so quickly. You get sit down for a nice long lecture or something?
[ His tone of voice is dead and flat. Skeptical. If Liem says 'yes,' he's going to laugh. What he's really asking is obvious enough -- 'what happened to you?' ]
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Not at what Liem says last -- Gen has no delusions about what fighting for the Kenoma means. Victory for the Kenoma will mean the death of everything and everyone. He's fine with that. If everything he'd ever known were to simply blink out of existence, here and now, he'd have no complaints. No, what makes his skin crawl is --
I suppose I was thinking that I knew better than the Regent did.
'Was.'
And now he doesn't.
Maybe even past the thin curtain of smoke that lingers between them, Liem can feel the way Gen's gaze sharpens at that, brow furrowed and eyes narrowing. There's a pointed pause before he speaks again. ]
And you've changed your mind, now. [ That much is a statement of fact. He doubts Liem would be out here, wandering about, if that lesson hadn't been impressed upon him. But now that he knows why Liem has been missing for so long, he can't help being all the more aware of how shitty Liem looks. Exhausted, drained. ] Doesn't seem like something that'd be easy to change your mind about so quickly. You get sit down for a nice long lecture or something?
[ His tone of voice is dead and flat. Skeptical. If Liem says 'yes,' he's going to laugh. What he's really asking is obvious enough -- 'what happened to you?' ]