[ He returns to his soup, too. The fact that his hand stays on By’s leg would be casual and thoughtless, maybe, if it didn’t require eating with his off hand.
The reasons he’s not worried are awfully sentimental. Awfully open to argument from By, who’s always resisted being labeled a good man with a good heart—and even if he cedes that point, Bastien thinks he’ll likely point out love and protectiveness can always be twisted into possession and jealousy and hurting people out of the belief it’s the only way to keep them safe.
But he wouldn’t. That’s what Bastien’s so sure of. If anyone he cared about said he was hurting them, he’d more likely walk into the sea than keep it up.
Bastien doesn’t press the matter. Not that matter, anyway. ]
I do have to meet your sister now. Even if it is not to ask her what she knows about the family curse. It’s only fair. I will give you, [ hmm, ] to the end of the year before I decide you are embarrassed of me and become very dramatic about it.
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[ He returns to his soup, too. The fact that his hand stays on By’s leg would be casual and thoughtless, maybe, if it didn’t require eating with his off hand.
The reasons he’s not worried are awfully sentimental. Awfully open to argument from By, who’s always resisted being labeled a good man with a good heart—and even if he cedes that point, Bastien thinks he’ll likely point out love and protectiveness can always be twisted into possession and jealousy and hurting people out of the belief it’s the only way to keep them safe.
But he wouldn’t. That’s what Bastien’s so sure of. If anyone he cared about said he was hurting them, he’d more likely walk into the sea than keep it up.
Bastien doesn’t press the matter. Not that matter, anyway. ]
I do have to meet your sister now. Even if it is not to ask her what she knows about the family curse. It’s only fair. I will give you, [ hmm, ] to the end of the year before I decide you are embarrassed of me and become very dramatic about it.