[If what Liem might have said were to turn out untrue when tested... then he has made a wise decision not to say it, sparing the both of them the argument she would not be able to start and snarl over and himself the disappointment. And if it was true, if Set would come and fight that demon for him...
Then perhaps he has made a merciful one.]
That is all I am asking you.
I do not... I do not think I am asking that much.
[That's the problem. Perhaps that has always been the problem. But-]
Of a-
[She hates this word, and how confusing it is, and how much she thinks it means that other people don't, and yet... using it...]
Of a friend.
Friends are supposed to care. And worry. ... And help.
[... Right? So even if it's not her, if he cannot think her reliable against the demon that has proven he could best her, and rip her eye out, and force one back in... He must have other friends, and so surely one of them... One of them could help protect him from a demon.]
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Then perhaps he has made a merciful one.]
That is all I am asking you.
I do not... I do not think I am asking that much.
[That's the problem. Perhaps that has always been the problem. But-]
Of a-
[She hates this word, and how confusing it is, and how much she thinks it means that other people don't, and yet... using it...]
Of a friend.
Friends are supposed to care. And worry. ... And help.
[... Right? So even if it's not her, if he cannot think her reliable against the demon that has proven he could best her, and rip her eye out, and force one back in... He must have other friends, and so surely one of them... One of them could help protect him from a demon.]