No unfeeling corpse does such things, no, but neither do most individuals. Surely you realize there is no other here for whom I would go to such lengths.
[When Astarion lays it out like that, he thinks it seems all too obvious-- enough so that he wonders how it was missed. Whether his companion simply deemed it impossible and thought no more of it, or just... overlooked the signs, just as surely as this news caught Hades off-guard when he half feels he ought to have noticed something of it before.
Maybe, in this way, they're both a little bit in the dark, despite being creatures of it.
His fingers run restlessly through his hair once again.]
I have often been honest with you. The truth is not always a well-timed thing, however.
[In this case, he certainly doesn't think so. This is why he meant to say nothing of it, to just leave it be.]
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[When Astarion lays it out like that, he thinks it seems all too obvious-- enough so that he wonders how it was missed. Whether his companion simply deemed it impossible and thought no more of it, or just... overlooked the signs, just as surely as this news caught Hades off-guard when he half feels he ought to have noticed something of it before.
Maybe, in this way, they're both a little bit in the dark, despite being creatures of it.
His fingers run restlessly through his hair once again.]
I have often been honest with you. The truth is not always a well-timed thing, however.
[In this case, he certainly doesn't think so. This is why he meant to say nothing of it, to just leave it be.]
Nor is love.