[ It's a lot to take in. Honestly - it feels like he's cracked, well before Prior laid hands on him. His father, not the villain and monster of By's childhood, but a miserable and frightened boy himself. Someone hurt. Someone miserable. There aren't many people whom Byerly has ever managed to hate, but his father was one - that cold, indifferent man, who cared not a whit for what his children were going through, who hardly even seemed to recognize his children as people. He was as hurt as the rest of them.
Forgiveness? Is he capable of that? His father wrecked him, far beyond Richars or Stamos or any of the other cousins, far beyond what Lord Sasha had done to him, exceeding even his beloved ImpSec with their little cruelties designed to break him and then make him. His father destroyed him. And for what cause? Because he was hurt himself? Because he was broken, too? Then you shouldn't ever have had children, you bastard. You should have died in solitude, rather than inflicting this on us. You should have - ]
Find some way out of it. There must be some escape route.
no subject
[ It's a lot to take in. Honestly - it feels like he's cracked, well before Prior laid hands on him. His father, not the villain and monster of By's childhood, but a miserable and frightened boy himself. Someone hurt. Someone miserable. There aren't many people whom Byerly has ever managed to hate, but his father was one - that cold, indifferent man, who cared not a whit for what his children were going through, who hardly even seemed to recognize his children as people. He was as hurt as the rest of them.
Forgiveness? Is he capable of that? His father wrecked him, far beyond Richars or Stamos or any of the other cousins, far beyond what Lord Sasha had done to him, exceeding even his beloved ImpSec with their little cruelties designed to break him and then make him. His father destroyed him. And for what cause? Because he was hurt himself? Because he was broken, too? Then you shouldn't ever have had children, you bastard. You should have died in solitude, rather than inflicting this on us. You should have - ]
Find some way out of it. There must be some escape route.