"So that's what you'd have been going for?" Aedan asked him, frowning a little. "Without, you know, checking about it?" He shook his head, "That's what we were trying before all this, you know, with Damien but...we also talked about it, nobody just ran out and sprung the idea on people."
It was a question, but it was also a shitty way to do it if that was the intent.
"I'd thought you were humoring me." he said. "You know, making me think I had a shot while still holding a torch because maybe it was as good a situation as any, in the circumstances, hell if I know."
And that was, well. Huh.
"Thanks for letting me know now, at least." Like he'd said, it changed nothing, but...