[a shaky sigh, allowing his hand to be guided and mimicking the gesture in return, his thumb tracing over the other man's cheek]
He'd said some things - this-- this was just before Gilder first came. I ran, and he was at the staircase when I came back; when Gilder was there... I hadn't realised he might have come to apologise for the things he said.
[and realisation, at the history repeated. The first fight they had ever had, at that staircase, and even before that fight - how he'd taken his guest and fled.]
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[a shaky sigh, allowing his hand to be guided and mimicking the gesture in return, his thumb tracing over the other man's cheek]
He'd said some things - this-- this was just before Gilder first came. I ran, and he was at the staircase when I came back; when Gilder was there... I hadn't realised he might have come to apologise for the things he said.
[and realisation, at the history repeated. The first fight they had ever had, at that staircase, and even before that fight - how he'd taken his guest and fled.]
I hurt him, too.