[ She'll watch that and then take a second puff while she lets you recompose yourself.
She's remembering now, the occasions wherein she had been able to watch the Sin-Eater up close. Two float to the surface easily: the look on the boy's face the day she asked him and Brianna Lopez to take you away from the Assassin's bedside; and the way Joshua LaRue had looked when she, Tohru, Asami, the Seer, and the two other Kings who in their own way view you as a son, sat down with him at King's Rest. ]
My son, [ a breath now, for emphasis ( because you are, you are her son ) ] If a question is left unanswered, is it better to let it lie and sit in uncertainty... or is it not wise to pursue the truth?
[ She says that evenly now. It is not her place to tell you whether or not your relationship with the War Hounds' blade leader will be good in the long run. At the end of it, the pursuit of the your relationship with him will only merit her attention if the boy destroys you in ways she cannot allow.
If you leave him, if you can walk away, that is your choice. His feelings are his own. He is not her son. ]
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She's remembering now, the occasions wherein she had been able to watch the Sin-Eater up close. Two float to the surface easily: the look on the boy's face the day she asked him and Brianna Lopez to take you away from the Assassin's bedside; and the way Joshua LaRue had looked when she, Tohru, Asami, the Seer, and the two other Kings who in their own way view you as a son, sat down with him at King's Rest. ]
My son, [ a breath now, for emphasis ( because you are, you are her son ) ] If a question is left unanswered, is it better to let it lie and sit in uncertainty... or is it not wise to pursue the truth?
[ She says that evenly now. It is not her place to tell you whether or not your relationship with the War Hounds' blade leader will be good in the long run. At the end of it, the pursuit of the your relationship with him will only merit her attention if the boy destroys you in ways she cannot allow.
If you leave him, if you can walk away, that is your choice. His feelings are his own. He is not her son. ]