[Well she's right to think he doesn't really want to talk about Millium and Cian. It just... hurts and there's nothing else to that sentiment other than getting lost in a vortex of feeling sorry for yourself when they have so much left to do. So much to try and piece together. Why acknowledge how terrible you feel when you can just engage in risky behavior in a desperate attempt to make things stop hurting?
What is easier to express, however, is anger and there's plenty of that to go around. After a moment, he obliges with an honest response.]
I can't believe being what I am matters so damn much.
[The words are bitterer than he intended. Olympia's words still make him sick to his stomach. You're an alien pretending to be human. It shouldn't get to him, but she hit a real bulls-eye here.]
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What is easier to express, however, is anger and there's plenty of that to go around. After a moment, he obliges with an honest response.]
I can't believe being what I am matters so damn much.
[The words are bitterer than he intended. Olympia's words still make him sick to his stomach. You're an alien pretending to be human. It shouldn't get to him, but she hit a real bulls-eye here.]