[Set doesn’t have to speak a word for Liem to know the answer to his question. He feels it in the convulsion that goes through his body, in the sudden dig of fingers against his flesh. He sees it in the way the man prowls around the rug-covered floor of the room after he’s abandoned Liem’s bed. His news isn’t the good kind.
Liem sits up when Set leaves the bed, bare down to his hips, watching him pace with worried eyes.]
He—
[Threw one? Off the side of the island? Liem doesn’t know if that’s better or worse than smashing it on the ground. Perhaps, if it’s still out there, floating in the blank tapestry between the stars, it can yet be retrieved. But it does not seem a comfort to imagine something so precious drifting around outside the boundaries of Kenos’s islands, lost in the cold, airless void beyond.
Did Gen even know what he’d tossed so callously into the dark? Did his spite really run that deep?]
What are you going to do?
[Gen had (allegedly) thrown one jar beyond the world’s boundaries. Does he still have the other? Holding onto it for some last shred of leverage over the god? Liem cannot help but note that Set came here, seeking his company (and perhaps his comfort, more fool him), rather than going in search of Gen.]
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Liem sits up when Set leaves the bed, bare down to his hips, watching him pace with worried eyes.]
He—
[Threw one? Off the side of the island? Liem doesn’t know if that’s better or worse than smashing it on the ground. Perhaps, if it’s still out there, floating in the blank tapestry between the stars, it can yet be retrieved. But it does not seem a comfort to imagine something so precious drifting around outside the boundaries of Kenos’s islands, lost in the cold, airless void beyond.
Did Gen even know what he’d tossed so callously into the dark? Did his spite really run that deep?]
What are you going to do?
[Gen had (allegedly) thrown one jar beyond the world’s boundaries. Does he still have the other? Holding onto it for some last shred of leverage over the god? Liem cannot help but note that Set came here, seeking his company (and perhaps his comfort, more fool him), rather than going in search of Gen.]