Charles's final exclamation leaves a wake of silence suffused with energy, as though an absence can still have weight; he remains the target of that blazing iron stare for its duration. And like a wake, it does settle, but a return to proper stillness may yet be a long time coming.
"It must be so easy for you to say that." Erik's voice, at once throaty and smooth, now carries weak resentment. "Isn't it."
Surely, the rest of that thought can remain unspoken.
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Charles's final exclamation leaves a wake of silence suffused with energy, as though an absence can still have weight; he remains the target of that blazing iron stare for its duration. And like a wake, it does settle, but a return to proper stillness may yet be a long time coming.
"It must be so easy for you to say that." Erik's voice, at once throaty and smooth, now carries weak resentment. "Isn't it."
Surely, the rest of that thought can remain unspoken.