Contra mundum

[patriotqueen]

…And just like that Kim was gone. His notes were gone, his pen was gone, his clothes were gone, his scent had vanished, the puff of smoke he had just exhaled was gone. There was nothing to indicate Kim had ever been there, except for the confused face of the friend he had left behind in mid-sentence

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[alittleofboth]

"Any you speaking to me?" Anthony asked mildly. His wheel of slides sat in front of him on his desk. Unconcerned by Guy's outburst - when was Guy not shouting about something? - he continued to hold up one slide after another to the light, reorganizing them as he went. "Or are you just talking about me?"

[patriotqueen]

"He left," Guy spat angrily, as he sat down on the desk. "Kim. He vanished. We were talking."

He knew Kim couldn't possibly be blamed, but that didn't matter. He had to be angry at something. Kim left and it almost felt to Guy as if it had been an act of cowardice on the spy's behalf.

[alittleofboth]

"Really?" Anthony stopped, his gaze shifting from the slide he still held between his fingers to some unknown middle distance. His expression, as ever, was difficult to read. So Kim was gone, then, back to the life that he craved, even knowing how it would destroy them all. Just like that, he was gone.

"Odd," he finally said, voice incongruously mild, "dramatic exits usually aren't Kim's forte."

It may not have been as straightforward as Guy's bastard, but the sentient was more or less the same.

[patriotqueen]

Kim was gone, and had left a very bitter taste in Guy's mouth. He had been accused by his friend. The spy had implicated that the freedom of this island had been what Guy must have always been fighting for. He had implicated that Guy must be pleased here. Worst of all he had implicated Guy liked it here. Only because he had made friends here, only because he was bloody bored and therefore inclined to do something, did not make him complacent. He resented the implication. (Did it ring too truthful?)

"Neither is moping, as I recall it." The island changed everyone. Not just bloody him.