Meanwhile... Elsewhere...
Namor has landed at the Avengers Mansion.
Since he is near by, having dropped off Philippa... Pony not far from where Jan was waiting, he decided to come here. There are people here who, well, perhaps calling them friends is a bit generous in the phrasing. Captain America is a friend and the others he has fought with and beside over the years.
Plainly put, Namor is not a man who lets many people close to him and that is what is mostly troubling him now.
He does not know how to deal with someone who is bound and determined to get close to him, to get to know him, who wants to see him happy. Things do not go well for him when people succeed at such things. They go even less well for those who manage the feat. Even Susan, who is quite firmly lodged in his affections, is kept outside as much as possible. It is a thing made much easier by her marriage - a thing he is both grateful and resentful of at the same time.
The distance he keeps makes it difficult to find confidants. It also usually makes them something unneeded.
Today is different.
Since he is near by, having dropped off Philippa... Pony not far from where Jan was waiting, he decided to come here. There are people here who, well, perhaps calling them friends is a bit generous in the phrasing. Captain America is a friend and the others he has fought with and beside over the years.
Plainly put, Namor is not a man who lets many people close to him and that is what is mostly troubling him now.
He does not know how to deal with someone who is bound and determined to get close to him, to get to know him, who wants to see him happy. Things do not go well for him when people succeed at such things. They go even less well for those who manage the feat. Even Susan, who is quite firmly lodged in his affections, is kept outside as much as possible. It is a thing made much easier by her marriage - a thing he is both grateful and resentful of at the same time.
The distance he keeps makes it difficult to find confidants. It also usually makes them something unneeded.
Today is different.