[It's yelled at Laurent's back, because for a moment Damen is too angry to remember why he came to love Laurent. It's like something erased all that happened on the way where they are and all that's left is where they were: two people who hate each other but seem inexplicably tied together.
He can't remember the crushing way it felt to know that he would have to give Laurent up. That the thing he held in his hands, precious and beautiful, would be the price he had to pay to face Kastor. The way it felt to know that he could have a kingdom or Laurent and he so badly wanted to hold what they had and make a new kingdom. Maybe if they had done that, held the center and made a life if it, this would not be happening.
By the time he's calmed down enough to be anything other than angry that Laurent once again was twisting situations to suit him, Laurent is . . . nowhere to be found. He's about to head back into the jungle and look for him when he remembers that they were going to cross the river for some reason, before they'd gotten into an argument over nothing, really.]
Laurent? [He doesn't expect an answer, but.] I'm crossing the river, should you need me.
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[It's yelled at Laurent's back, because for a moment Damen is too angry to remember why he came to love Laurent. It's like something erased all that happened on the way where they are and all that's left is where they were: two people who hate each other but seem inexplicably tied together.
He can't remember the crushing way it felt to know that he would have to give Laurent up. That the thing he held in his hands, precious and beautiful, would be the price he had to pay to face Kastor. The way it felt to know that he could have a kingdom or Laurent and he so badly wanted to hold what they had and make a new kingdom. Maybe if they had done that, held the center and made a life if it, this would not be happening.
By the time he's calmed down enough to be anything other than angry that Laurent once again was twisting situations to suit him, Laurent is . . . nowhere to be found. He's about to head back into the jungle and look for him when he remembers that they were going to cross the river for some reason, before they'd gotten into an argument over nothing, really.]
Laurent? [He doesn't expect an answer, but.] I'm crossing the river, should you need me.
[Which, quite obviously, he doesn't.]