I. Don’t. Know. [Frustration and exhaustion sharpen his clipped words.]
We’ll lead them away from here. Until that’s done, nothing that comes after matters.
[Hector isn’t a planner, isn’t a leader. He doesn’t know what to do other than to react to the threat before them. What he wants is to curl up on the cold stone beside Isaac and bury his head in the crook of Isaac’s neck, to let the heat of his skin and the beat of his pulse lull him while his body rests.
He is pretty sure Isaac would put his dagger through Hector’s heart before he’d allow that.]
...I don’t know where I am headed after. We’d be stronger together, not that you’d care, but once we’re clear of the mountain and sure the hunters have been drawn away, you can be rid of me.
[He assumes that is what Isaac wants, now that he’s conquered the bit of Hector he’d wanted.]
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We’ll lead them away from here. Until that’s done, nothing that comes after matters.
[Hector isn’t a planner, isn’t a leader. He doesn’t know what to do other than to react to the threat before them. What he wants is to curl up on the cold stone beside Isaac and bury his head in the crook of Isaac’s neck, to let the heat of his skin and the beat of his pulse lull him while his body rests.
He is pretty sure Isaac would put his dagger through Hector’s heart before he’d allow that.]
...I don’t know where I am headed after. We’d be stronger together, not that you’d care, but once we’re clear of the mountain and sure the hunters have been drawn away, you can be rid of me.
[He assumes that is what Isaac wants, now that he’s conquered the bit of Hector he’d wanted.]