She hears the shift in his breath, and she hates to think any of it is because of her. That she would make him suffer so.
“We’ve done fine enough for ourselves in your absence,” she regrets it as soon as it’s out of her mouth because though her intention was a bad joke in return for a bad joke, it says something else to him immediately and she knows it; it says ‘We don’t need you’ and ‘Maybe we never did’. These things aren’t true, but she knows Kaz better than almost anyone. Knows how his mind can twists things around all the wrong way.
So she’s particularly careful with her next words. Confident. Certain. No room for doubt between the words. “Then you have a sharpshooter and a wraith at your sides, ready to help you build a new empire.” She won’t let go of him so easily.
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“We’ve done fine enough for ourselves in your absence,” she regrets it as soon as it’s out of her mouth because though her intention was a bad joke in return for a bad joke, it says something else to him immediately and she knows it; it says ‘We don’t need you’ and ‘Maybe we never did’. These things aren’t true, but she knows Kaz better than almost anyone. Knows how his mind can twists things around all the wrong way.
So she’s particularly careful with her next words. Confident. Certain. No room for doubt between the words. “Then you have a sharpshooter and a wraith at your sides, ready to help you build a new empire.” She won’t let go of him so easily.