[At the remark, a soft, contemplative smile tinged with bitterness creeps across his lips.]
Yes…
[A strange, tenuous silence follows as thoughts and feelings whirl chaotically with a tireless ferocity inside him. He pushes his fingers through his hair, his hands stopping to grip the back of his head as the futility of his rage sinks in. Too many days had been devoured by fury, as if it had any power to undo the past. As if it could command any man to fearfully revere him, or to - -]
Of that… [He answers lowly, hands falling.] I know well.
[And it burns. He scoffs mirthlessly, so harsh and breathless a sound, it might have been the beginnings of a sob. But his lowered eyes are inscrutably hard, his features firmly set.]
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Yes…
[A strange, tenuous silence follows as thoughts and feelings whirl chaotically with a tireless ferocity inside him. He pushes his fingers through his hair, his hands stopping to grip the back of his head as the futility of his rage sinks in. Too many days had been devoured by fury, as if it had any power to undo the past. As if it could command any man to fearfully revere him, or to - -]
Of that… [He answers lowly, hands falling.] I know well.
[And it burns. He scoffs mirthlessly, so harsh and breathless a sound, it might have been the beginnings of a sob. But his lowered eyes are inscrutably hard, his features firmly set.]