Palamedes pushes his hair back from his forehead with a quiet sigh. He’d guessed as much, but it’s another thing altogether to have his fears confirmed. If he was a different sort of person, he would have shouted, you didn’t have to. None of you had to. The thought brings him back to the fateful Canaan House laboratory where they had all last been together, to you lied to us and the horror of unnecessary bloodshed deemed holy.
It makes him furious, and it breaks his heart.
But Lyctorhood, whatever form it might take, is not actually the point at the moment. “Gideon,” he says, a quiet warning. She has every reason to be angry, but her anger will only make a delicate situation worse. Returning to Harrow he says, “The efficacy of your plan aside—and I’m not even sure I agree with your theory, by the way, but that’s a matter for another time—your conduct here should have no bearing on your existence at home, spiritual or material. We’ve not been transported wholesale into a new universe. Instead, the timeline has split; we’ve been sent one way, and another version of ourselves has been sent the other.”
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Date: 2021-05-21 06:48 pm (UTC)It makes him furious, and it breaks his heart.
But Lyctorhood, whatever form it might take, is not actually the point at the moment. “Gideon,” he says, a quiet warning. She has every reason to be angry, but her anger will only make a delicate situation worse. Returning to Harrow he says, “The efficacy of your plan aside—and I’m not even sure I agree with your theory, by the way, but that’s a matter for another time—your conduct here should have no bearing on your existence at home, spiritual or material. We’ve not been transported wholesale into a new universe. Instead, the timeline has split; we’ve been sent one way, and another version of ourselves has been sent the other.”