"And you couldn't, what, just tell me that you hadn't meant to do things that way then?" Aedan sounded mostly tired now, but it beat being pissed off, anyway. "That's what's frankly baffling. What was it, some kind of way to punish me?"
And the last? He snorted.
"Eh aye? Well, hardly obvious at all. You'd been hung up on him for months, especially after the animus thing." Aedan figured he might as well go for it having everything out. "I figured back then, it was almost over too. The memory was obviously more powerful than any of us, so...it made sense when you got what you'd seemed to always want that you'd just take it. And I was the first one you told, so...how was I supposed to know it wasn't anyone else invited?"