He followed her inside and immediately apologized, “I am sorry I did not call ahead, however there are limited people who I can go to for something of this...” Hedylogos stopped. He didn't know how to finish the sentence without it coming out insulting or possibly worse. Instead he took the idle moment of conversation to rub at the flesh under his eyes and then run this hands through his disheveled mop of blond hair.
But no matter how much he wanted to hold onto it and get through normal pleasantries, Bragi's words kept replaying over and over in his mind. His own personal fears echoing that it might be true while a small voice was straining inside that there was no possible way he would do such a thing to himself. Why would anyone do that to themselves?
“Do you think that I sabotage my own happiness?” He blurted out in the most in-eloquent manner possible. It felt so wrong coming from his mouth but the idea of doing such a thing felt so contrary to his very nature at the same time.