[Yeah, it makes sense--from Charles perspective I think a lot of these things might have seemed momentarily inevitable at first...and then they just got more and more entrenched. He's kind of made himself an emotional island, and Erik is just too caught up in his own pain to ever really focus on what the aftermath of Cuba has meant for Charles. And also, lol, wow X-men movie verse, that's not a convoluted timeline at all.]
Aurus really didn't think he needed to say that ten years was quite long enough for something like this to go on without question. He was quite confident that the sentiment was already in the air. If he said it, it would only serve to hammer it home, and this was not a time for hammers.
So what he said instead was, "Well, it's not that I don't appreciate asceticism..." and then he just left the rest alone.
For a moment he was quiet, then he stepped over to the window. He stood slightly to the side, not blocking Charles view and surveyed the scenery for a moment before suggesting or, more to the point, requesting: "Show me around the grounds. It's a beautiful day--we should be out in the sun."
It was a way of changing the subject, not a resolution of any question, which it seemed to him could not happen in this moment at any rate. It was, he felt, appropriate to leave this proverbial keg open to air, let it settle and breathe and return to it in time. If he was reading the matter right, he had given Charles something to think on--something, probably, that would occupy his thoughts and refuse to fully leave him be until it came to a head one way or the next. To be fair, it might very well distract and occupy him incessantly, given how he seemed, from what Aurus knew so far, too cerebral a person to just ignore the thing now that it had been dragged out so starkly and lain at his feet.
Was it possible that he would just make Charles resent and dislike him for what he'd done? Of course Aurus knew it was a risk. One never got anywhere without taking some risks though. Besides he trusted Charles as much as he already found that he cared for him, and he did not think that was how this would end.
no worries <3
Aurus really didn't think he needed to say that ten years was quite long enough for something like this to go on without question. He was quite confident that the sentiment was already in the air. If he said it, it would only serve to hammer it home, and this was not a time for hammers.
So what he said instead was, "Well, it's not that I don't appreciate asceticism..." and then he just left the rest alone.
For a moment he was quiet, then he stepped over to the window. He stood slightly to the side, not blocking Charles view and surveyed the scenery for a moment before suggesting or, more to the point, requesting: "Show me around the grounds. It's a beautiful day--we should be out in the sun."
It was a way of changing the subject, not a resolution of any question, which it seemed to him could not happen in this moment at any rate. It was, he felt, appropriate to leave this proverbial keg open to air, let it settle and breathe and return to it in time. If he was reading the matter right, he had given Charles something to think on--something, probably, that would occupy his thoughts and refuse to fully leave him be until it came to a head one way or the next. To be fair, it might very well distract and occupy him incessantly, given how he seemed, from what Aurus knew so far, too cerebral a person to just ignore the thing now that it had been dragged out so starkly and lain at his feet.
Was it possible that he would just make Charles resent and dislike him for what he'd done? Of course Aurus knew it was a risk. One never got anywhere without taking some risks though. Besides he trusted Charles as much as he already found that he cared for him, and he did not think that was how this would end.