OPEN | prompt three | PAIN

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isaac . cabal sibylla | 9w

[inclusion]

[ Isaac considers the statement thoughtfully for a long moment before deciding: ]

They won't kill me.

[ex_seon708]

[TEACH ME HOW TO BE MANLY LIKE YOU]

Well, good.

[inclusion]

[ ONE DAY, LITTLE PADAWAN. ONE DAY. ]

They won't kill you either.

[ex_seon708]

[He exhales. Jeremy has a bit of an instinctive 'yeah, right' attitude when matters concern him.]

Not like anyone would really bother.

[Which is. A good thing.]

[inclusion]

[ Isaac disagrees, of course (they were guardians and drones, they were meant to serve the sisters, their value was in nurturing and protecting the future queens). Still, his disagreement is in now way forceful. ]

She's important. [ 'She' meaning his charge, the cabal sister that he was promised to. ]

[ex_seon708]

[A guardianship of another kind was given to Jeremy after the sister quickly realized he didn't have in him to protect in the same way Isaac and Ethan do, despite having also been promised. He tends to other matters, banal but necessary.]

Oh -- yeah. [Jeremy debates whether he should clear up something he might have said but attempts a smile instead, shaking his head.] She has nothing to worry about.

[ex_strove332]

You make it sound like they're hurting you already.

[inclusion]

[ Isaac spreads his hands slightly, his palms showing outward in the approximation of not-a-shrug. ]

Born ready. Just in case.

[ex_strove332]

[They might have had their lives dedicated to the cabal, to the protection of the witches, but they had never been separated, never had their relationship as siblings lessened or denied. The witches would always come first, but Ethan would never forget that Isaac was his brother, and concern still lingers in his expression.]

In silence?

[inclusion]

[ He doesn't talk much in general and never has, even as a little boy. The sisters say that, when he was born, Isaac hadn't so much as cried — not even when the midwife had slapped his bottom to make sure he breathed right. As little as he talks in general, Isaac speaks even less to Ethan. Which is odd, given that Ethan is the one person he has the most to say to. But, given their age and their time together, in this place that has little to offer as distraction from one another and the sisters, Isaac's silences are profound and his brother knows just how to read them.

He shrugs. ] You'd know better.

[ex_strove332]

[Ethan might be the louder of them, the more aggressive - as far as loud and aggressive went, in the halls of Sibylla - but he had always made sure there was a space beside him for Isaac, that he had always listened when Isaac did choose to speak. And when he didn't.]

I'd hope to.

[It's almost impossible, in a cabal full of seers, to have any privacy, to have secrets, and so it is tempting to keep them from those that it was possible to do so with. Ethan knows that, but he also knows he would never keep secrets from his brother.]