[He is not being fair, he knows. Buthe's tired, stressed, and just... just wants Beleth back as she was. Acid-tongue and glaring and always, always at his back. Kind in those small ways, when it was just the two of them, so that he always knew, no matter what, he could trust her honesty.
Not this, not this kind of trusting. Like a child.]
I know you fancy her, but I don't know you, and I'm not leaving her alone with just anyone.
[There is a long, fraught silence. Sorrel would give anything, endure any hardship, for Beleth's sake. There's nothing in the world he wouldn't do. But that doesn't make it easy, that doesn't stop him from tiring.]
...Alright. But if you do anything, anything, if she becomes distressed or-- you leave, got it?
[It takes a surprising amount of icemelt to fill a bath and even then you have to heat it. Sorrel's just one mage, and not a particularly powerful one, at that.]
...Food is always a help. A clean change of bedding maybe.
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[He is not being fair, he knows. Buthe's tired, stressed, and just... just wants Beleth back as she was. Acid-tongue and glaring and always, always at his back. Kind in those small ways, when it was just the two of them, so that he always knew, no matter what, he could trust her honesty.
Not this, not this kind of trusting. Like a child.]
I know you fancy her, but I don't know you, and I'm not leaving her alone with just anyone.
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[With her, not in her right mind and not remembering any of them? No, that was a danger.]
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...Alright. But if you do anything, anything, if she becomes distressed or-- you leave, got it?
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I will absolutely leave, the moment I begin to upset her. What do you require?
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[It takes a surprising amount of icemelt to fill a bath and even then you have to heat it. Sorrel's just one mage, and not a particularly powerful one, at that.]
...Food is always a help. A clean change of bedding maybe.
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[For a chance to be with her.]