[It is a pretty terrible sin. Fortunately, it's easily fixed with the application of a few more Rejoinings.
Maybe being healed wasn't so bad after all. It still rankled, more than a bit, but if it meant he could walk off from this insult relatively unharmed, while the Exarch's garden was shredded? Then it was almost (but not quite) worth the indignity of the situation.]
He put them up to annoy me, nothing more or less. Despite my future... indiscretions, I've been entirely decent here. Though it's no business of yours, the Exarch and I have reached an- understanding, of sorts.
[Not a truce, exactly, and he knew well enough the grudge the Exarch had for him, but. It wasn't outright antagonistic either. Like everything else, it was Complicated.]
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Maybe being healed wasn't so bad after all. It still rankled, more than a bit, but if it meant he could walk off from this insult relatively unharmed, while the Exarch's garden was shredded? Then it was almost (but not quite) worth the indignity of the situation.]
He put them up to annoy me, nothing more or less. Despite my future... indiscretions, I've been entirely decent here. Though it's no business of yours, the Exarch and I have reached an- understanding, of sorts.
[Not a truce, exactly, and he knew well enough the grudge the Exarch had for him, but. It wasn't outright antagonistic either. Like everything else, it was Complicated.]