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[rosebyanyother]

"Morrigan Prince. I'm afraid I'm too busy to answer at the moment, but leave a message and I promise to respond as soon as I'm able."

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[haldaneprotector]

That seems....

[ He pauses there, thinking of something Hawke had said of his relationship with Brion. ]

Unfair to you. Did you participate in that decision or was it made for you?

[rosebyanyother]

[...Is it unfair? It had seemed...reasonable to Peter. Not ideal, not easy. But reasonable.]

I agreed to it.

[Which isn't answering the question directly but may well answer it indirectly.]

[haldaneprotector]

[ He arches his eyebrow a little, because yeah. That is a kind of an answer. ]

There are things it is very hard to say no to. Or to feel you can.

[rosebyanyother]

[Having this brought to his attention, Peter isn't sure...how he feels. A little defensive of Jon, honestly, because he feels as if Alaric is implying that there's been bad behavior practiced here.

Another, small part of him reaches for the empathy in Alaric's words. The recognition of unfairness, of the fact that Peter has been suffering. But....the former wins.

'I didn't think to say no' is on the tip of his tongue, but Peter goes with something else.]

It didn't make sense to object. It wouldn't help anything to overwhelm his boyfriend.

[haldaneprotector]

[ He doesn't delve into what the emotional reactions are, though he has enough sense into what his own reaction would be.

God knew he defended Brion and Jehana both, a lot. ]

As I said, my lover married a woman who could not stand me. This situation is better, by far, and sometimes there are no options that are fair.

But they are still unfair and painful.