[ When Cassian remains silent on the matter of what he has done, Set does not so much relent as he does fixated harder upon it. The silent weight of his scrutiny like claws, raking thoughtfully across Cassian's mind. Like he might start digging, a man possessed and hungry for knowledge, even if it bloodies someone he is considerate towards in the process.
Whatever he has done ( is doing ), it seems it is important for him to remain silent about it. And so, the brief and silent thing between them becomes a weighted thing, stones stacked one atop another across Cassian's legs, while the god curls his mind and soul into those green-stained fingers and passes a mote of warmth into his palm. The delicate re-taking of purification. A small balm, unconditional even in the face of Cassian's silence.
He brings the man's fingers into the plant again, to show him the texture of an adult leaf, compared to a juvenile. How to test a stem for good health, little things that Set knows of from listening to the god of fertile land and life, that he never thought would matter to him. The god of arid, dead lands. ]
Right now, I can assure you that you are no lesser today than you were yesterday when you sought to be someone different. One familiar act does not unmake your potential, these days.
[ Men are the sum of parts, complex and strange. Men are capable of change, even subsumed as they are in lightless places where they cannot see a way out. ]
To tell you that perhaps we are here, together, to continue saving one another from falling.
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Whatever he has done ( is doing ), it seems it is important for him to remain silent about it. And so, the brief and silent thing between them becomes a weighted thing, stones stacked one atop another across Cassian's legs, while the god curls his mind and soul into those green-stained fingers and passes a mote of warmth into his palm. The delicate re-taking of purification. A small balm, unconditional even in the face of Cassian's silence.
He brings the man's fingers into the plant again, to show him the texture of an adult leaf, compared to a juvenile. How to test a stem for good health, little things that Set knows of from listening to the god of fertile land and life, that he never thought would matter to him. The god of arid, dead lands. ]
Right now, I can assure you that you are no lesser today than you were yesterday when you sought to be someone different. One familiar act does not unmake your potential, these days.
[ Men are the sum of parts, complex and strange. Men are capable of change, even subsumed as they are in lightless places where they cannot see a way out. ]
To tell you that perhaps we are here, together, to continue saving one another from falling.