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[massrez]

☙INBOX text ♔ audio ♙ video ♔ action Kindly leave your missives and they will be responded to with utmost haste. May you walk in the Light.

Done this day by my hand, King Anduin Llane Wrynn

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[massrez]

Yes, reminding someone of a potentially traumatic event in their past should warrant an apology, shouldn't it.

[ Stare. Sip. ]

[alwayskayaking]

[Yeah. Tim knows what that stare is for. He coughs and shifts uncomfortably on the couch.] Ah... yes. [He takes a second to try and look Anduin in the eye.] I am sorry for what I said. [Kind of.] It's just-- when you said this was something the city had done-- [He wets his lips and shakes his head. No, excuses and his reasoning why is not what Anduin needs right now.] Doesn't matter anymore. I'm sorry. [Only kind of.]

[massrez]

You thought I was about to let the same thing happen again.

[ He lowers the bottle, straightening as he sits, and looking a little more composed than before. ]

[alwayskayaking]

I was concerned you hadn't considered that possibility before sending your only help away. If the city had changed the way a friend of mine acts I'm not sure I would be thinking about that. I would be too focused on them.

[massrez]

If I needed to fight him, I could.

[ Whether he would or not...he's not sure he wants to know the answer to that. ]

Thankfully it didn't come to that. Some core part of him was still in there to be reached. It wasn't like...

[ He pauses, recollecting himself. ]

It wasn't the same.

[alwayskayaking]

I'm glad my warning in the end was unnecessary. And I'm sorry for feeling the need to give you a warning like that.

[massrez]

...I'm not unaware of when things are dangerous.

I've known danger most of my life, prince or no.

[alwayskayaking]

I didn't say you were unaware that the situation was dangerous. [He just didn't think his friend had considered all of the options in terms of the type of danger he was facing.]

[massrez]

It did feel a little implied.

As it is, part of the reason I told you that story was so that you'd understand that...well. I know a little of what it's like to have a fear of something monstrous in the back of your mind. Not being able to trust because of it.

[alwayskayaking]

That wasn't my intention so I'm sorry that it felt that way.

[Wait... was this becoming about him? Tim had come here to make sure his friend was okay so it's stunned for a second or two. Unsure what to say next as he certainly wasn't expecting things to start turning towards him.] Ah.

[What should he say? He should say something.] I'm sorry you feel that way. [It rings hollow. Not that Tim didn't feel bad that his friend shared in this awful feeling, but more that he clearly doesn't know what to say.]

[massrez]

Don't be.

[ He doesn't need to say or do anything. Anduin's made his peace with it, in a way Tim has yet to do. Though if this is anything, it's proof that fear still lingers in the back of his mind. ]

...I just don't want you to feel as if I don't know what it's like. I do. More than I choose to let anyone know.

[alwayskayaking]

[There is a long pause as Tim fights silently with himself. Anduin just went through something traumatic. Or at least something that reminded him of a traumatic event in his life. He should let it go but--]

Then why heal him? Why protect a dragon who kidnapped you and is the type that doesn't see any reason to apologise for their actions against you? The city messing with his mind or otherwise? [Says the man who struggles with forgiveness.]

[massrez]

[ Questions he's asked himself plenty of times, Tim. ]

Sometimes my friends can be...difficult. That doesn't make them less worthy of help, when they need it.

[alwayskayaking]

He didn't seem to need it that day to me.

[massrez]

You hit him with an axe, Tim.

[alwayskayaking]

And he kidnapped you. [He sees no problem with his actions.]

[massrez]

Which last I checked doesn't nullify the damage from being hit with an axe.

[alwayskayaking]

Well, I wouldn't have hit him with an axe if he would have let you go.

[massrez]

I'm not questioning your reasoning.

[ He knows that's a lost cause. ]

But it doesn't change the fact that he was hurt as a result, and needed help.

[alwayskayaking]

Could have happened after he released you.

[massrez]

Why would I have waited that long?

[alwayskayaking]

To be able to escape!

[massrez]

He was hurt. I wasn't going to just leave him like that.

[alwayskayaking]

He hardly flinched. I doubt he was that hurt.

[massrez]

It can be hard to tell, with dragons.

Concealing weakness is part of survival.

[ Or it seems that way. Wrathion's situation has always been a bit more precarious. ]