[ How long until Nikolai has a list of resurrections? This place seemed tailored to it, an inevitability to be weathered. But all that inevitable pain didn't quite compare to— ]
She was cruel.
[ How many Lantsovs had been cruel? Kirigan could tell him, if Nikolai ever asked.
This divergence buzzes in the background of their connection, the link between them cinched closer and closer as Nikolai asks: ]
Why did she do that to you?
[ And then, a low murmur beneath that question: ]
Don't come until I tell you. Wait for me
[ An absence of a secret proffered in return, but maybe there's something made clear in these questions anyway: what Nikolai wants to know, how he asks Danny to stay his hand. ]
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She was cruel.
[ How many Lantsovs had been cruel? Kirigan could tell him, if Nikolai ever asked.
This divergence buzzes in the background of their connection, the link between them cinched closer and closer as Nikolai asks: ]
Why did she do that to you?
[ And then, a low murmur beneath that question: ]
Don't come until I tell you. Wait for me
[ An absence of a secret proffered in return, but maybe there's something made clear in these questions anyway: what Nikolai wants to know, how he asks Danny to stay his hand. ]