five.

[al_malik]

[For a time, there was a barely tangible feeling - an uncomfortable feeling - that he was beginning to reconcile. That he was settling. It had come too easily. He had wealth, the weight of his words, and to some extent, he had his woman where he wanted her: out of Osiris's hands, in a place where he could watch her. That Horus had come unannounced

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[acordar]

Do you honestly see a reason for him to greet you?

[al_malik]

I'm his uncle. He's my nephew. He can't be so useless - oh wait, he's your son.

[acordar]

And yet he still beat you. It speaks so well of you.

[al_malik]

Beat me? He cheated. That speaks so well of you, sister.

[acordar]

And you attempted to molest him. How well that speaks of you, dear brother. Are these little barbs all you have to say?

[al_malik]

You're mistaken. I was only trying to make peace with him. He was so sweet about it, after all. And then you filled him with pretty little thoughts to betray me.

[acordar]

You are speaking to me, Set, not some fool you hit on the street. Trying to make peace after killing his father. Your peace would come with a heavy price attached. It always did.

[al_malik]

You don't love me, sister? I'm saddened, seeing as I'd loved you.

[acordar]

Do not dare I did love you, how could I not? If you felt the same though, your actions would have been much different.

[al_malik]

Really? Feel free to interpret what a loving brother would have done in my situation.

[acordar]

My definition of loving brother must be askew. It does not involve murder. Of your own brother and your sister's husband. Loving. Heavens above. Come now, Set. We speak, it tumbles directly into this subject.

[al_malik]

It must be. But as you know, sister, I'm a graciously forgiving man. Unclear as the future may be, I could set aside my differences in favor of a little empathy on your part.