...we had our powers. Our god boon powers. As long as we stayed on the same side, as the god who gave them to us.
[His hands on the cup -- the knuckles start to go white.]
You should have --
[He starts to breathe, in and out, as implications start to hit him.]
-- you should have had them. Why didn't you? What was different, about...
[It feels, to Atem, like rules have been broken. Like in the dollhouse. Something that should have protected Ryou, if Atem wasn't there, failed -- but only for him.]
....
....
[The words he says next come out hollowly.]
It wasn't your fault. It wasn't -- it really wasn't! You were -- put in a position where advantages you should have had, weren't there for you...
[The blood's draining from his face. His thoughts feel like a five-and-counting-car-pileup, like a series of slamming iron doors three feet thick, one impact after the other after the other.
Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck. The tier 3 powers weren't enough. And priest...that won't be, either. Not if this pattern -- and it is a pattern -- is the truth he's been blind to...!]
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The rest of us...
...we had our powers. Our god boon powers. As long as we stayed on the same side, as the god who gave them to us.
[His hands on the cup -- the knuckles start to go white.]
You should have --
[He starts to breathe, in and out, as implications start to hit him.]
-- you should have had them. Why didn't you? What was different, about...
[It feels, to Atem, like rules have been broken. Like in the dollhouse. Something that should have protected Ryou, if Atem wasn't there, failed -- but only for him.]
....
....
[The words he says next come out hollowly.]
It wasn't your fault. It wasn't -- it really wasn't! You were -- put in a position where advantages you should have had, weren't there for you...
[The blood's draining from his face. His thoughts feel like a five-and-counting-car-pileup, like a series of slamming iron doors three feet thick, one impact after the other after the other.
Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck. The tier 3 powers weren't enough. And priest...that won't be, either. Not if this pattern -- and it is a pattern -- is the truth he's been blind to...!]
It wasn't your fault.