[ he thinks about what he says for a good minute, then says, rather carefully, ]
I understand what you mean, but people like me should be careful regarding such things; youth and the fragility of life are merely the hallmarks of time spent in this world.
Where a man is freed of duties and responsibilities that he shoulders from birth, there is an obligation to remember in service of what was left behind, and a duty to return. Aside from what the faction expects of me here, this is all that I am concerned with.
... though I do not wish for you to take my words as an insult, or indifference to your concern. [ dimitri looks away, his jaw the stubborn cut of steel he was made of, forged from the way being a prince has sanded what remained of the child that he was from birth. ] All I am saying is that life is past me.
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I understand what you mean, but people like me should be careful regarding such things; youth and the fragility of life are merely the hallmarks of time spent in this world.
Where a man is freed of duties and responsibilities that he shoulders from birth, there is an obligation to remember in service of what was left behind, and a duty to return. Aside from what the faction expects of me here, this is all that I am concerned with.
... though I do not wish for you to take my words as an insult, or indifference to your concern. [ dimitri looks away, his jaw the stubborn cut of steel he was made of, forged from the way being a prince has sanded what remained of the child that he was from birth. ] All I am saying is that life is past me.