"You don't understand," he said, and now his expression had edged from blank to slightly... earnest. "That's what I mean."
Because there's someone else he saw in her, and that was himself. Isolated, confused, thrown this mantle of power with no instruction manual--and then offered a connection with a monster she didn't want associated with herself. It wasn't the same, and he knew it, but it was a way for him to understand what was happening to her. It was an avenue out of his own darkness, to reclaim some hope. For her.
"This isn't a rejection. Or an insult." He reached out, palm up. "It might have been, a few days ago. Am I upset that you hid this from me? Yes. That was a choice you made that was foolish and dangerous. But if he made a choice, so did my father. And my father chose to come back. I, too, have made choices. Some I stand by. Some, I regret. I will not choose, again, to turn on someone with a connection to something I fear, simply because I don't understand it."
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Because there's someone else he saw in her, and that was himself. Isolated, confused, thrown this mantle of power with no instruction manual--and then offered a connection with a monster she didn't want associated with herself. It wasn't the same, and he knew it, but it was a way for him to understand what was happening to her. It was an avenue out of his own darkness, to reclaim some hope. For her.
"This isn't a rejection. Or an insult." He reached out, palm up. "It might have been, a few days ago. Am I upset that you hid this from me? Yes. That was a choice you made that was foolish and dangerous. But if he made a choice, so did my father. And my father chose to come back. I, too, have made choices. Some I stand by. Some, I regret. I will not choose, again, to turn on someone with a connection to something I fear, simply because I don't understand it."