“What do you think I’d do – just leave you out there to die?” Hadrian said, almost petulant at his brother’s lack of faith.
It would not be half as rewarding an endeavour as nursing Delia back to health (or more likely, Delia nursing him), limbs entangled in bed together under canvas somewhere gloriously remote – but saying so was unlikely to help his cause. “You don’t trust me?”
That he had allowed his sister-in-law to be cursed into a beetle on an expedition didn’t much help his cause either, probably.
It would not be half as rewarding an endeavour as nursing Delia back to health (or more likely, Delia nursing him), limbs entangled in bed together under canvas somewhere gloriously remote – but saying so was unlikely to help his cause. “You don’t trust me?”
That he had allowed his sister-in-law to be cursed into a beetle on an expedition didn’t much help his cause either, probably.
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