[ For a brief moment, Rezo looks miffed. Zelgadis hates him. Rezo is the vessel of Shabranigdu who nearly destroyed the world. Rezo thinks it would be perfectly reasonable to assume that Zelgadis's opinion of Rezo's opinion would be poor!
Reasonable perhaps, but ultimately incorrect as Zelgadis asserts. The admission lights a tender curl of warmth within him- somehow, impossibly, Rezo still matters to his grandson!
-but that warmth is just as quickly overtaken by horror. Mattering to Zelgadis gives him a power over the boy that he knows he cannot be trusted with. ]
...I'm sorry.
[ He raises a hand, intending to touch it to Zelgadis's cheek. Perhaps Zelgadis will accept the touch, or perhaps he'll avoid it somehow. Either way, Rezo forges on. ]
Zelgadis, you will be far better off if you don't concern yourself with what I do or do not care for.
[ Cepheid, though, it's agonizing to admit. ]
I... do care about you. But I cannot guarantee I always will, nor that my feelings will be of any good to you.
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Reasonable perhaps, but ultimately incorrect as Zelgadis asserts. The admission lights a tender curl of warmth within him- somehow, impossibly, Rezo still matters to his grandson!
-but that warmth is just as quickly overtaken by horror. Mattering to Zelgadis gives him a power over the boy that he knows he cannot be trusted with. ]
...I'm sorry.
[ He raises a hand, intending to touch it to Zelgadis's cheek. Perhaps Zelgadis will accept the touch, or perhaps he'll avoid it somehow. Either way, Rezo forges on. ]
Zelgadis, you will be far better off if you don't concern yourself with what I do or do not care for.
[ Cepheid, though, it's agonizing to admit. ]
I... do care about you. But I cannot guarantee I always will, nor that my feelings will be of any good to you.