[Lucius sighs at that stipulation. That is going to take a while. He can keep up with some adults, but not the ones with both proper experience and a talent for fighting. He needs more speed and power before he can get one over on Break.
He doesn't say anything in response, though, because the real issue here is the "invitation."
This is the thing about Askeladd, even Askeladd who has reclaimed his real name: he does not belong. It is not something he knows as a matter of conscious thought. It's a small but persistent flame deep inside of him, scorching parts of his heart. The feeling is hard to separate from the other things that burn (anger at the world, resentment over the way things are, the side of grief that is also fury), but that just makes it harder to extricate. And it burns more fiercely in Trench. Starting from a place different from everyone else is a part of it. But the worst is that he has memories now of a different version of himself who did belong, in the homeland he only knows from that other self.
But this Lucius is Askeladd, and Askeladd is Lucius. He will always be too much of one thing to fit in another.
The thought that arises from this instinct is that this still doesn't make sense. Maybe it's a sign of Break's own corruption, a way for him to prevent any "problems" before someone runs amok causing them. Maybe since Ange got the idea to create an...alternative household, Break is applying the same logic to anyone who lives in his house.]
Ange must be thinking of "the lot of us" pretty broadly. I barely know her.
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He doesn't say anything in response, though, because the real issue here is the "invitation."
This is the thing about Askeladd, even Askeladd who has reclaimed his real name: he does not belong. It is not something he knows as a matter of conscious thought. It's a small but persistent flame deep inside of him, scorching parts of his heart. The feeling is hard to separate from the other things that burn (anger at the world, resentment over the way things are, the side of grief that is also fury), but that just makes it harder to extricate. And it burns more fiercely in Trench. Starting from a place different from everyone else is a part of it. But the worst is that he has memories now of a different version of himself who did belong, in the homeland he only knows from that other self.
But this Lucius is Askeladd, and Askeladd is Lucius. He will always be too much of one thing to fit in another.
The thought that arises from this instinct is that this still doesn't make sense. Maybe it's a sign of Break's own corruption, a way for him to prevent any "problems" before someone runs amok causing them. Maybe since Ange got the idea to create an...alternative household, Break is applying the same logic to anyone who lives in his house.]
Ange must be thinking of "the lot of us" pretty broadly. I barely know her.