@ofrhvn / vezely ( cont ).
Elladan would try to nuance her statement regarding their infinite ability to remember, if only the circumstances were different. This is not that type of conversation, he thinks. So he regards her quietly instead, patiently awaiting her answer to that question he hadn’t dared to pose quite so explicitly. When Vezely addresses it ( sooner and more forthrightly than anticipated, at that ), he is surprised to note a measure of amusement in her voice. It is brief, but it is there – and he finds solace in it, perhaps even more than in the content of her reply. He sighs at length, distancing himself from the window. It might be a false sense of security he feels, but he cannot help but sense that, maybe, the worst is passed. ❛ I admit, I do feel relieved – somewhat. ❜
Enough of the doom in his mind lingers to leave him uncomfortable all the same. There is much left unsaid, left properly acknowledged. It thickens the tension between them all the more so. ❛ Even if perhaps our diametrically opposed pasts are nothing to feel at ease with. The unspoken things we know exist between us attest to that, ❜ he continues, surprised by his own brazenness. His gaze averts for a moment. ❛ I know not what to say regarding that distant past, ❜ says he, his severity returning as he gestures towards the tome. ❛ I cannot apologise for what I did that day. I can only ... acknowledge the discomfort this knowledge must cause you, and say tell you I regret being, in part, responsible for that. ❜
