Stay your pretty eyes on course...

He could see the thoughts spinning in Ultyr's head, seemingly lost in his thoughts for a moment. While there was the faint worry in his ribs that he had done the wrong thing, this wasn't something he would let himself budge on. He needed Ultyr to ask, there was some part of him that needed this margin of control to feel comfortable continuing forward. He needed to know that in some way, he held sway over the other and that this wasn't Ultyr looking to replace his Angel, that he wasn't looking to replace Abbadon with Ganymede. That he wasn't a substitute for Atreyu who was unreachable for the other. That he was wanted enough to be asked for something and not just taken.

It felt entirely irrational, and likely was with how jumbled all those thoughts felt when put together, but seeing that look on the other’s face had spiked the anxiety that sat under the surface. Then the words came, and they had Ganymede pausing his own thoughts as they came, and he'd be lying if he said he couldn't feel his own fur beginning to bristle along his spine and shoulders.

"The demon in my story? You've seen my demon and he is by far worse than you have been. A beast who gave me to others when it pleased him to simply watch what was done to me, and those were the easier days! You've done nothing to compare yourself to mine or even Lailah's demons. You're by far better than they are.” He stared at Ultyr with eyes lit by a storm of emotions. ”Here you sit trying to imply that i'm lowering myself by choosing who can finally have me instead of simply being taken, that i would be cruel enough to ask and then not give. " His voice rose in pitch, moving to sit up as he glared at the larger man. He was incensed, angry, at the implications that he was lowering himself by any means by finally choosing who he would want to lay with, that he would be cruel enough to ask and then deny someone, that Ultyr thought he was the demon of Ganymede's stories when he was the one who had saved him to some degree, helped him find his way home to his family..

"speech"

"other’s speech"