[He considered a gentle correction, that he meant the test, not the reforms...
And decides that Miles' pride was the more important one here.
He stills, watching Miles under heavy, drawn brows. He doesn't refute the last, the frustration and hurt was still new. Not many more days from yesterday to Aral.
Carefully, as if afraid he would break it - this - again, he answers,]
He gives - gave - neither adoration nor scorn in half measures. There's no shame in returning what you were given. Were it not wholehearted, you'd have found no trace at all.
[He takes a breath, the next simply finding its way out. Pain made some men curt and irritable. For Aral, it had a tendency to loosen his tongue as much as drink did.]
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And decides that Miles' pride was the more important one here.
He stills, watching Miles under heavy, drawn brows. He doesn't refute the last, the frustration and hurt was still new. Not many more days from yesterday to Aral.
Carefully, as if afraid he would break it - this - again, he answers,]
He gives - gave - neither adoration nor scorn in half measures. There's no shame in returning what you were given. Were it not wholehearted, you'd have found no trace at all.
[He takes a breath, the next simply finding its way out. Pain made some men curt and irritable. For Aral, it had a tendency to loosen his tongue as much as drink did.]
It seems beyond me. He was so impossibly large.