[It can't be what it sounds like! It just can't! That's not - that doesn't make any sense at all!
He'd tried to kill him. No one in his world would ever give him consideration beyond a blood feud. He'd expect it. Hell, he'd initiate it? That should have been the end of it all, whether or not the kid survived.
What he's carefully setting down on the counter again with unsteady hands is an artifact that cannot exist. It's too much of a puzzle to even destroy it. Or to know if he wants to...]
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He'd tried to kill him. No one in his world would ever give him consideration beyond a blood feud. He'd expect it. Hell, he'd initiate it? That should have been the end of it all, whether or not the kid survived.
What he's carefully setting down on the counter again with unsteady hands is an artifact that cannot exist. It's too much of a puzzle to even destroy it. Or to know if he wants to...]