[Oh, he thinks to himself, as though he knows what's going on here. Oh, you've tread too close to implying commitment, and after the phantoms that plagued him while he was gone and his existing deep-seated traumas about Aren, it's all just too much. Implications of attachment are too much. Better to walk them back.]
I didn't mean it as an imposition. Just that — a mere expression of your importance. I would want the two of you to know one another because I care deeply for the both of you. You needn't take it for a...a demand of any sort.
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[Oh, he thinks to himself, as though he knows what's going on here. Oh, you've tread too close to implying commitment, and after the phantoms that plagued him while he was gone and his existing deep-seated traumas about Aren, it's all just too much. Implications of attachment are too much. Better to walk them back.]
I didn't mean it as an imposition. Just that — a mere expression of your importance. I would want the two of you to know one another because I care deeply for the both of you. You needn't take it for a...a demand of any sort.