He loves me...he loves me not

*Valentine* · 01-23-2016, 04:51 PM

There was a palatable tension beneath the calm the two wolves projected. They were playing their respective roles civilly, but at least on Valentine's end he was waiting for the seemingly inevitable outburst of emotion. His expression unwavering, he kept his attention fixed on Einarr.

“It’s a shame things have to be this way. I could give two shits about the pack my mother is in..." For reasons he couldn't quite place Valentine zeroed in on this statement. Presumably Einarr meant he couldn't give two shits about his mother's pack, since giving a shit meant he actually cared...but now didn't really seem like a good time to be questioning the Legionary's misuse of the phrase. Perhaps a growing sense of what he was going to have to do was forcing him to fixate on the trivial. It didn't matter - he knew it didn't matter - and yet he wanted it to have his attention. It would be easier to call out the boy's flub than to give him the ultimatum; easier to burst through the calm that way and become heated. Do away with this forced civility.

His mother was a blooming idiot. Because Einarr was her son Valentine couldn't fault him for believing otherwise or seeing her piteous acts of "bravery" as anything other than a sad joke. His loyalty to her was admirable and there were parallels that could be drawn between them and Valentine and his own mother. But Einarr's loyalty was not to him or Imperium and that couldn't be ignored. "I will not hold it against you.” Valentine nodded his agreement. He felt the same way and wouldn't hold the Legionary's choice against him. "Then I have an ultimatum to give you, one I'm sure you expect and one I'm sure I know the answer to. Renounce your mother - her surname, her family, her affection for you - or leave Imperium immediately and do not return." The "or else" needn't be said, but it was there. He wouldn't -couldn't - take rejection well. Einarr was only getting the chance to leave unharmed once.

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