[Still caught flat-footed by waking up to Silver’s presence and stubborn desire to help him, Liem struggles to collect himself, to master the thirst gripping his body and present a dignified face to this man who has seen him stripped of hs facades. All Silver wants is to help him, but the struggles Liem is currently facing are ones he can’t abide anyone else glimpsing, let alone sacrificing to address.]
I didn’t want anyone to know.
[The few times he’d volunteered information about his ailment, he had simply said that he was ill—that the natural soul transformation was hard on him, and that his illness would abate once the changes ceased. It wasn’t untrue; the pain and fatigue and feverish chills that had wracked him for weeks seem to have abated, now that his heart is no longer beating.
But he does not feel any more ready than before to be around the people he cares for.]
You should go, before I change my mind about accepting your offer.
[Even now, he’s sorely tempted. But he knows with the certainty of past experience that sating his thirst would only wrack him with guilt instead.]
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I didn’t want anyone to know.
[The few times he’d volunteered information about his ailment, he had simply said that he was ill—that the natural soul transformation was hard on him, and that his illness would abate once the changes ceased. It wasn’t untrue; the pain and fatigue and feverish chills that had wracked him for weeks seem to have abated, now that his heart is no longer beating.
But he does not feel any more ready than before to be around the people he cares for.]
You should go, before I change my mind about accepting your offer.
[Even now, he’s sorely tempted. But he knows with the certainty of past experience that sating his thirst would only wrack him with guilt instead.]