[It was easier to speak of when he spoke about it clinically. He almost tried to imagine he was discussing this with someone else—the fact that they were so casually discussing his departure from humanity would be stranger than him doing so with a stranger.
It was difficult enough to parse answers for broader questions. He's starting to wonder how he's going to react when Hide starts to needle for more sensitive information (because he will, he knows him, so he knows he will).]
No... it's okay. Admittedly I reacted sharply... You only said as much as they will probably see, if we have to do much more fighting...
[Even that was uncomfortable to mention. He doesn't like to think that Hide will one day see him, kagune drawn, one of his eyes blackened with the pupil burning hot as a live coal. Half-ghoul.
He knows what Hide is saying. In many ways, he agrees, or close enough that there's no point in arguing. But still.]
There are similarities in other worlds, you're right. Wells' included. That's not what worries me. It's the differences that do that.
[In other worlds, the power differential was enough to cause friction, but in those worlds they at least stood on the same plane despite that. They weren't dealing with natural predators, an inflexibility of that hierarchy that allowed nothing else.
It applied. It would always apply. He wasn't sure how far he'd have to go before he made Hide understand that.]
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It was difficult enough to parse answers for broader questions. He's starting to wonder how he's going to react when Hide starts to needle for more sensitive information (because he will, he knows him, so he knows he will).]
No... it's okay.
Admittedly I reacted sharply... You only said as much as they will probably see, if we have to do much more fighting...
[Even that was uncomfortable to mention. He doesn't like to think that Hide will one day see him, kagune drawn, one of his eyes blackened with the pupil burning hot as a live coal. Half-ghoul.
He knows what Hide is saying. In many ways, he agrees, or close enough that there's no point in arguing. But still.]
There are similarities in other worlds, you're right. Wells' included.
That's not what worries me. It's the differences that do that.
[In other worlds, the power differential was enough to cause friction, but in those worlds they at least stood on the same plane despite that. They weren't dealing with natural predators, an inflexibility of that hierarchy that allowed nothing else.
It applied. It would always apply. He wasn't sure how far he'd have to go before he made Hide understand that.]