Maker, don't get me wrong, I AM glad he's returned safe, and seemingly calmer than he has been, now that the aliens are on the brink of quitting, and that he had the sense to go out with one of the few people outside of family (or soon to be family) who I trust implicitly, but Aedan's slipping out, with only a note hidden well enough to allow himself time to get away before it was found, with no security to speak of and while lying about the entire thing, both directly and by omission drives me MAD.
I swear to you all, here and now, that after he's had a proper day to rest from being out there, that I am going to
murder him.
...How DO you impress it upon someone that their life belongs not only to themself, but to their country, or their cause or whatever it is that they're meant to hold sacred above everything else?
Not to mention the more personal concerns I have for him, of course, but Aed's rather more reasonable about it when I've had to address things like that, even bordering on mature at times, at least in the end. I've no doubt things will come around to being alright on that end fairly fast, even if we'll neither of us like the conversation we'll be having.
It's the convincing him of his greater value and responsibility in the bigger face of things that we're all struggling with, not that it's hard to understand why he IS. If there's a way to impress on someone things are different now, I'd love to hear them all the same, mind.