the firestarters always get the burns
and the good guys never get the girl
Castile is lost in thought often throughout their entire conversation, but it does not turn her away. Lile she said, he was already changing himself and making the best effort to be a good man, and letting go of his past. Sure, he’d sired children, but if looking at Solace while she had been pregnant with the twins was any indication, he had not forced them into existence.
Which made him less a monster in her eyes than be could possibly believe, she thinks.
He is reminded by the story of children, to come over to Hyaline and she nods. ”Whenever you’re ready, they will be. Do you want me to tell anyone that you’re back?” Possibly he would want to come see them on his own time, possibly he would like to tell them himself. But maybe that was scary. Maybe he needed an outside force to tell them he was back so he could force himself to go. Whichever suited him best was fine, she figured. As long as he came around. He could still be a father to them.
He stalls at her other question. Clearly he does not want to share every detail, but she has been accustomed to that by now; his hiding the darkesf secrets. But as long as he grazes over them and considers them himself, she believes that he secretly, deep down, is still healing. That would be all tbat was needed of him today. Today he doesn’t need to visit Solace or his children. Today he can talk to a near-stranger and reconsider.
His story involves Nerine and Loess, and she nods. ”You may be pleased to know Nerine has changed and lets men in their ranks now, and is tied to Ischia as a sister kingdom which holds mostly men and a few women in their ranks. I don’t know how to feel about Loess as they’re so opposed to what we stand for nowadays, but perhaps you wish to form your own opinion. There have been leadership changes both there and in Sylva, the latter of which I would not recommend stepping around lightly. It houses....” she gives him a wry smile. ”Monsters. The unchanging kind.” she tells him. There, at least now he’s up-to-date with most kingdom business although she has not gone into Loess in-depthly. Something is up with the horses in there. Something Hyaline is not too happy to be a direct neighbour to, but she does not know Castile well enough to know if he likes or hates it’s change, so she leaves it at that.
@[Castile]