Re: Island: Janus/Atticus
"Sorry." Meant it. The apology. "It sucks. Sounds like it sucks." Couldn't claim to know, not in any true way. Had avoided relationships like the plague. "Can't even explain my future self. No clue what I could've been thinking." Sat forward, knees bent, arms around his kneecaps. Attentive. "Haven't done the relationship thing. Was always too much work. Keeping lies from more people, from someone important, felt like too much work." Was earnest.
But the wolf-ghost connection, that clicked. "Ah. Got it. Makes sense, I guess. Not sure how I arrived at that conclusion, but can see thinking it was the lesser of two evils." Did understand.