[ You never invited me, would be the petty response, if Bastien wanted to try to squirm out of this intimate, cuddly honesty by being combative again, but he knows full well that it would be a technicality. He'd made it so clear he didn't want to be here that asking him to outright would have been begging for rejection or hurtfully transparent excuses. He's glad By didn't.
So instead he sighs. ]
That was—I know you hate this, you don't want us to do this, but it feels like it is hers. Hers and yours. Votre. [ Orlesian is better for some things. ] I need to get over it, because it might be a while before she comes back. And maybe a dragon will attack us tomorrow morning, and I will over there and you will be over here with—with all these people who would not protect you like we would, [ is the kindest way to put Bastien's distrust of the other division heads when it comes to Byerly's safety, ] and I will be so upset you were alone.
But I have been worried that when she comes back, it will be, you know. A whole thing.
[ Also the kindest way he can put that. ]
It's alright, though. Even if it is a thing. That's why I'm here now—to get over it.
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Date: 2023-01-16 06:41 pm (UTC)So instead he sighs. ]
That was—I know you hate this, you don't want us to do this, but it feels like it is hers. Hers and yours. Votre. [ Orlesian is better for some things. ] I need to get over it, because it might be a while before she comes back. And maybe a dragon will attack us tomorrow morning, and I will over there and you will be over here with—with all these people who would not protect you like we would, [ is the kindest way to put Bastien's distrust of the other division heads when it comes to Byerly's safety, ] and I will be so upset you were alone.
But I have been worried that when she comes back, it will be, you know. A whole thing.
[ Also the kindest way he can put that. ]
It's alright, though. Even if it is a thing. That's why I'm here now—to get over it.