"I did too, I told him I thought he hated me for everything that happened." He scoffed at that memory, "Who could have predicted there were things worse than that..?"
Killing his brother in one world, being a total disappointment to him in the other, which tied into having killed him. He hadn't taken the time to process what happened in Purg, just suppressed it the whole time he was in Attollo, Al arriving in Riverview had only brought all of that back to the surface. He was definitely not telling this kid about any of that, though.
"It won't." Just don't ask how he's so sure of that. "You go back to the moment you left, nothing will change between you. Al and I were... nearly ten years apart by the time we met again. I couldn't give him what he wanted and I'd changed a lot more than he was prepared to deal with." He'd already resigned himself to his fate, but he didn't think the teen wanted to hear that.
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Killing his brother in one world, being a total disappointment to him in the other, which tied into having killed him. He hadn't taken the time to process what happened in Purg, just suppressed it the whole time he was in Attollo, Al arriving in Riverview had only brought all of that back to the surface. He was definitely not telling this kid about any of that, though.
"It won't." Just don't ask how he's so sure of that. "You go back to the moment you left, nothing will change between you. Al and I were... nearly ten years apart by the time we met again. I couldn't give him what he wanted and I'd changed a lot more than he was prepared to deal with." He'd already resigned himself to his fate, but he didn't think the teen wanted to hear that.