[Temenos would not have asked if he wasn't prepared for the answer. It would do well of Lobelia to stop underestimating him.
That said...there really is a noticeable shift in the air when the confirmation comes directly from Lobelia's lips. Just to have it out there that Temenos has been fraternizing with a supposed mass murderer leaves him...
Well, he ought to be disgusted, both toward Lobelia and toward himself. And part of him certainly is. But there's something about the disconnect of them from being from different worlds—the fact that Lobelia is admitting these things and Temenos can do nothing to resolve them—that keeps Temenos coming back to this strange relationship they have.
That's how he'd like to explain it, anyway. Maybe he just doesn't want to admit that he enjoys how he and Lobelia can speak of these morbid subjects in a way that most people could never understand.
Worse, no amount of revelations have deterred him.
He meet Lobelia's confession with a smirk.]
You're envious that no one has caught onto you, hm? How do you suppose it would make you feel to discover that finally, someone was beginning to put the pieces together and that you might have a real confrontation on your hands?
["If someone like me were to make you face justice for the first time?"]
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That said...there really is a noticeable shift in the air when the confirmation comes directly from Lobelia's lips. Just to have it out there that Temenos has been fraternizing with a supposed mass murderer leaves him...
Well, he ought to be disgusted, both toward Lobelia and toward himself. And part of him certainly is. But there's something about the disconnect of them from being from different worlds—the fact that Lobelia is admitting these things and Temenos can do nothing to resolve them—that keeps Temenos coming back to this strange relationship they have.
That's how he'd like to explain it, anyway. Maybe he just doesn't want to admit that he enjoys how he and Lobelia can speak of these morbid subjects in a way that most people could never understand.
Worse, no amount of revelations have deterred him.
He meet Lobelia's confession with a smirk.]
You're envious that no one has caught onto you, hm? How do you suppose it would make you feel to discover that finally, someone was beginning to put the pieces together and that you might have a real confrontation on your hands?
["If someone like me were to make you face justice for the first time?"]