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Openly:He's okay. For an indigo. Muralist has earned a grudging respect and toleration from Summoner, even to the point of being someone he'll go to for help. No other indigo, at all, gets to call him 'Brother'. Ever.
Secretly:Muralist has, somehow, managed to completely smash through Rufuss's hatred and bias against indigos and has become the only one that Rufuss will actively defend. A friend, even if the idiot bronzeblood flat refuses to actually admit it. Nor does he understand it, since Muralist had not only the issue of bloodcolor but also of being His alternate working against him.
Summoner does actually trust the man, if that comes with a healthy portion of Trusting a Makara to be a Makara. He is at least more stable and more tolerable than the one Summoner knew and killed. Summoner also genuinely hopes Muralist's universe will take a better course than his own did; he doesn't want to see this guy dead, and definitely not at the hands of his own kismesis.











