It's hard to tell what he knows. There was something different that I couldn't place.

[it was much better in this place without him, that's all he could say. the person he was ... well, for thousands of years he was the picture of "what not to do" on the tongue of everyone who retold the myths of the gods.]

I could not tell you what, Aradia.

[the affection is a little odd, but not unpleasant. he hadn't had a confident since he had forced Hela to throw Leah into the past. and he knew ... he knew that she would never forgive him for that, no matter what his reasons were for it.]