[His breath catches at the confirmation that there's nothing about this life he doesn't know. Relief.
The voices in his own head hiss at that, irritated to see they're losing.
Sure. Maybe that's true. But is HE really the one you two need to worry about? There's so much about YOU you haven't bothered to tell him.
Hypocrite. He'd hate you if he knew. You're just prolonging the inevitable.
...that's a risk he's going to have to take, then, isn't it? He cannot, will not, give in to despair.]
...I've known since December, at least. I've just been denying it to myself. But the more pieces of this puzzle I get, the harder it became to deny.
But I didn't leave when I was questioning it, I didn't leave when I knew. Even in our past lives, I didn't leave you. I forced your secrets out of you, hunted you down to the ends of the earth.
"Crow Armbrust isn't real?" Like hell he isn't. He's right here. He always was. And I knew that then as well as I know it now.
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The voices in his own head hiss at that, irritated to see they're losing.
Sure. Maybe that's true. But is HE really the one you two need to worry about? There's so much about YOU you haven't bothered to tell him.
Hypocrite. He'd hate you if he knew. You're just prolonging the inevitable.
...that's a risk he's going to have to take, then, isn't it? He cannot, will not, give in to despair.]
...I've known since December, at least. I've just been denying it to myself. But the more pieces of this puzzle I get, the harder it became to deny.
But I didn't leave when I was questioning it, I didn't leave when I knew. Even in our past lives, I didn't leave you. I forced your secrets out of you, hunted you down to the ends of the earth.
"Crow Armbrust isn't real?" Like hell he isn't. He's right here. He always was. And I knew that then as well as I know it now.