[... To be honest, that was the worst answer to hear—odd, maybe, considering the brutality of the other kills (though it does paint an ill picture that there were two independent kills), but...
He takes in a breath, visibly forcing himself to calm down. It was nothing personal on the Sirens' part (he hopes). It's not as if they're keeping track of every single person everyone associates with.
... But why did it have to be them?]
I see.
[Why, after indirectly killing the person Prussia cared about most, after she then had to lose her best friends here the next week, did they have to take away the last of her people too?
He doesn't ask any of that, because he knows, again, that the answer will be that they weren't thinking about that at all. And it shouldn't matter to them, really.
But on top of everything else that's happening on this island, having to constantly worry, without a break, about his partner's emotional stability—it's wearing down on him, however horrible that it is when it isn't even about him.]
no subject
He takes in a breath, visibly forcing himself to calm down. It was nothing personal on the Sirens' part (he hopes). It's not as if they're keeping track of every single person everyone associates with.
... But why did it have to be them?]
I see.
[Why, after indirectly killing the person Prussia cared about most, after she then had to lose her best friends here the next week, did they have to take away the last of her people too?
He doesn't ask any of that, because he knows, again, that the answer will be that they weren't thinking about that at all. And it shouldn't matter to them, really.
But on top of everything else that's happening on this island, having to constantly worry, without a break, about his partner's emotional stability—it's wearing down on him, however horrible that it is when it isn't even about him.]
Why?
[Though he can guess.]