[ He doesn’t make a move to stop her this time. She’d successfully scraped over far too many of his own insecurities with that answer, leaving him feeling raw in the aftermath.
He felt stupid now, for expecting a different answer from her. For hoping that all those exchanges had meant something. The night of the gala, the night on the roof. The night in the maze. Even more foolish to forget the fundamental truths he’d lived most of his life by.
Wishful thinking, after all. He thought he’d cured himself of that a long time ago, but apparently not.
He lets her get to the door before he calls after her. His voice is low and solemn, but at least there’s nothing else in it to give him away. ]
Hilda. You can’t avoid him forever. Sooner or later you two are going to have to face this problem looming between you. And the longer you put it off the harder it will be.
[ He takes himself out of the equation this time. He didn’t have a place there, not really. ]
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Date: 2023-07-24 04:02 am (UTC)He felt stupid now, for expecting a different answer from her. For hoping that all those exchanges had meant something. The night of the gala, the night on the roof. The night in the maze. Even more foolish to forget the fundamental truths he’d lived most of his life by.
Wishful thinking, after all. He thought he’d cured himself of that a long time ago, but apparently not.
He lets her get to the door before he calls after her. His voice is low and solemn, but at least there’s nothing else in it to give him away. ]
Hilda. You can’t avoid him forever. Sooner or later you two are going to have to face this problem looming between you. And the longer you put it off the harder it will be.
[ He takes himself out of the equation this time. He didn’t have a place there, not really. ]