"Nothing of consequence. As I said, you were delirious, hallucinating ghosts." It's the truth as Albert sees it. So he saw Bina. So what? It may be cold given that she's dead now and that Albert had admired and respected her spirit despite it coming with ten kinds of stupid and stubborn, but the Yomi sister is barely someone Albert thinks about, not when an even greater personal tragedy followed her death. One he's trying to prevent a rewriting of in keeping Jet alive.
But there's little he can do right this second, waiting for the pills to work and trying to keep out of the heat as best they can, and Albert's mind supplies Jet's face, drawn in a hurt and hateful grimace. She's what you want, isn't she? You chose Bina over me.
He never did, not to his knowledge. He had Jet may have been fighting at the time, bickering over some damn fool thing as they were wont to do in younger days - lord, were those really younger days? - but Albert had never intended anything with Bina at all. She was brash and sometimes even empty-headed. They were about to die and she kept insisting on his name of all things. In hindsight, Bina probably had feelings for him. And maybe he'd been a little attached to her too, given his execution Von Bagoot. He may not regret it, but he's still not proud of that. It was like he'd gone cold and hard, fully the machine he'd fought against being for so long. It was like...
It was like what he did to Perry Kelvin in his first arena after Jet had died in his arms.
For the first time, he can see how Jet might make that assumption.
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But there's little he can do right this second, waiting for the pills to work and trying to keep out of the heat as best they can, and Albert's mind supplies Jet's face, drawn in a hurt and hateful grimace. She's what you want, isn't she? You chose Bina over me.
He never did, not to his knowledge. He had Jet may have been fighting at the time, bickering over some damn fool thing as they were wont to do in younger days - lord, were those really younger days? - but Albert had never intended anything with Bina at all. She was brash and sometimes even empty-headed. They were about to die and she kept insisting on his name of all things. In hindsight, Bina probably had feelings for him. And maybe he'd been a little attached to her too, given his execution Von Bagoot. He may not regret it, but he's still not proud of that. It was like he'd gone cold and hard, fully the machine he'd fought against being for so long. It was like...
It was like what he did to Perry Kelvin in his first arena after Jet had died in his arms.
For the first time, he can see how Jet might make that assumption.
"Are you worried about what you saw?"