[How easily what he’s said is denied, like the permanent nature of being beholden to one group is malleable and never indelible. It’s very Luka, he thinks, never rigid, always going with the flow — a personality impulsive, emotional, raw. Enviable.
It should agitate him, really, but for some reason he cannot find it in him to reject the notion a second time. The application of the term “friend”, given life through actual vocalization, upends any real desire to. He has such a small collection of them; his loyalty had always tried to extend to them, give them the benefit of the doubt, until he could no longer.
And so, the sound of an exhale expelling from his lungs, shoulders rising and falling.]
What would you suggest? Other than sparring and reading.
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It should agitate him, really, but for some reason he cannot find it in him to reject the notion a second time. The application of the term “friend”, given life through actual vocalization, upends any real desire to. He has such a small collection of them; his loyalty had always tried to extend to them, give them the benefit of the doubt, until he could no longer.
And so, the sound of an exhale expelling from his lungs, shoulders rising and falling.]
What would you suggest? Other than sparring and reading.
[A dry reference to their conversation prior.]