[ If it were not for Benedict's quiet (good call) presence, Bastien might have made it personal: is that what you're doing when you apologize to me, is that what you think I'm doing when I apologize to you. And if it were not for the fact that he does have some faith in Byerly, he might have launched right into an explanation of what the point of an apology is, in detail, as if to a rifter from a world without.
It's still tempting, as revenge for him having asked.
Instead, eyebrows raising from beyond his feet on the desk: ]
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It's still tempting, as revenge for him having asked.
Instead, eyebrows raising from beyond his feet on the desk: ]
Really?