[ with a tone that so carefully does not match the face he's making that it somehow comes back around to implying it again, ]
He left.
[ and isaac could elaborate on that, because it's one thing to think yourself over it and another to find that it alive and well and angry to see you — except that kostos fucking hates ilias, and he certainly hated hearing about this. so: ]
[ sounds distracted. He's trying to make sense of this relationship timeline while also being inattentive to details and other people's personal lives.
Maybe that's also why he concedes, ]
She told me she loved me and I asked her to explain what she meant.
If she couldn't tell you how she loved you, then good job yourself. You dodged a spectacular harpy. [ she was going to upgrade anyway. something in the background clinks, glass and stone. ] We kept having the same fight, I think. You have one fight and you never really put it down.
[ Harpy earns a huff of air, as likely to have turned into a laugh as a snort if it'd been given more backing. He doesn't harbor Benevenuta any ill will—fear and avoidance, those are different—but it's nice to occasionally not be blamed for whatever went wrong with the hot, charming one. ]
Leander?
[ A guess. Maybe a bad one. But that was the only potential problem glaring enough for Kostos to notice. ]
If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else.
[ which maybe sounds like he wanted to fuck other people, and it's a bit that, sure. but there are things that isaac has come to expect, and then there are the things that ilias will forgive. ought not to. if he hadn't hurt leander,
it would have been someone else. at any rate, he doesn't elaborate. instead — ]
You were friendly, weren't you? I don't recall if you heard what came of him.
[ Something moderately less hostile than he was with Ilias, teenaged nose-breaking and all. Friendly feels like a strong word. But when no alternative comes easily to the tongue, those two words alone conveniently form a full sentence. ]
No. I don't know where he went. The last time we spoke it was about him shoving Athessa down the stairs to get back at me for Ilias—when she broke her arm.
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crystal.
What happened with you and Ilias?
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He left.
[ and isaac could elaborate on that, because it's one thing to think yourself over it and another to find that it alive and well and angry to see you — except that kostos fucking hates ilias, and he certainly hated hearing about this. so: ]
Took off one day, didn't write. Why?
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[ Maybe now he's supposed to say he's sorry?
Yeah no. ]
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[ sounds distracted. He's trying to make sense of this relationship timeline while also being inattentive to details and other people's personal lives.
Maybe that's also why he concedes, ]
She told me she loved me and I asked her to explain what she meant.
—is that why he left?
[ Does he have to say thank you now. ]
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[ explain what she meant. maker above. but, ]
If she couldn't tell you how she loved you, then good job yourself. You dodged a spectacular harpy. [ she was going to upgrade anyway. something in the background clinks, glass and stone. ] We kept having the same fight, I think. You have one fight and you never really put it down.
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Leander?
[ A guess. Maybe a bad one. But that was the only potential problem glaring enough for Kostos to notice. ]
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[ which maybe sounds like he wanted to fuck other people, and it's a bit that, sure. but there are things that isaac has come to expect, and then there are the things that ilias will forgive. ought not to. if he hadn't hurt leander,
it would have been someone else. at any rate, he doesn't elaborate. instead — ]
You were friendly, weren't you? I don't recall if you heard what came of him.
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[ Something moderately less hostile than he was with Ilias, teenaged nose-breaking and all. Friendly feels like a strong word. But when no alternative comes easily to the tongue, those two words alone conveniently form a full sentence. ]
No. I don't know where he went. The last time we spoke it was about him shoving Athessa down the stairs to get back at me for Ilias—when she broke her arm.
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of course they didn't. he'd covered for leander, time and again. for all his present effort isaac doesn't, entirely, succeed in killing anger. ]
He went north. Defected, far as I can tell. Athessa wasn't the only one.
[ funny, curious athessa, who called him when she couldn't sleep. ]
Rutyer, too. Flint wanted me to manage him.