This level of scrutiny inevitably brings with it discomfort. It's inescapable.
Ellis doesn't like to be studied closely.
He doesn't like to dredge up such explanations either. This one in particular is thorny, barbed with things Ellis is honor-bound not to speak aloud. And he knows instinctively that Richard will find the incomplete nature of the answer unfulfilling, and the impasse barring him from the rest to be a frustration.
Thot's purr vibrates under his fingers.
"I don't want this life for you," is as close as Ellis can get. It's shadowed with a particular truth: You're asking me to gamble with your life. There are many who do not survive the Joining, but that Ellis can never say.
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Ellis doesn't like to be studied closely.
He doesn't like to dredge up such explanations either. This one in particular is thorny, barbed with things Ellis is honor-bound not to speak aloud. And he knows instinctively that Richard will find the incomplete nature of the answer unfulfilling, and the impasse barring him from the rest to be a frustration.
Thot's purr vibrates under his fingers.
"I don't want this life for you," is as close as Ellis can get. It's shadowed with a particular truth: You're asking me to gamble with your life. There are many who do not survive the Joining, but that Ellis can never say.