You can't just logic your way into a conclusion that a powerful, inhuman being that mostly has derision for humankind can possibly love you. The signs that might have been there did not belong to a human, and couldn't have been interpreted as if they did.
"I think I can understand it. I was lucky. I had Rhy to show me I'm more than a weapon and shield raised for his protection."
There are no words to express the difference it made. Kell can't imagine himself, the person he could have become, growing up without Rhy's love and kindness. Would he end like Holland? A powerful but hollow husk bound to whims of his king and queen? Perhaps. It was Rhy's love that saved him from such fate.
"Don't sell yourself short. You were the reason he even entertained the thought of making that effort. He didn't start to care with me, or even Wilhelm."
Given Wilhelm's rather stormy relationship with Lucifer, Kell will give him more credit in swaying the archangel's mind than he'd give himself. He started as resource, an access to funding and refuge, and it was too comfortable an arrangement for him to prod for anything more. Istredd on the other hand...
"He did with you."
Kell smiles at the description give the Thorne's Summoned. Lucifer is not far away with his chaos gremlins either. With few exceptions, that's what they are.
"I think you might be right."
He most certainly has such a person. Same as he always did. Now? He suddenly has more of them, and it never ceases to both shock and amaze him. Kell suspects that Lucifer is similarly perplexed by his own developments.
time for head swivel?
"I think I can understand it. I was lucky. I had Rhy to show me I'm more than a weapon and shield raised for his protection."
There are no words to express the difference it made. Kell can't imagine himself, the person he could have become, growing up without Rhy's love and kindness. Would he end like Holland? A powerful but hollow husk bound to whims of his king and queen? Perhaps. It was Rhy's love that saved him from such fate.
"Don't sell yourself short. You were the reason he even entertained the thought of making that effort. He didn't start to care with me, or even Wilhelm."
Given Wilhelm's rather stormy relationship with Lucifer, Kell will give him more credit in swaying the archangel's mind than he'd give himself. He started as resource, an access to funding and refuge, and it was too comfortable an arrangement for him to prod for anything more. Istredd on the other hand...
"He did with you."
Kell smiles at the description give the Thorne's Summoned. Lucifer is not far away with his chaos gremlins either. With few exceptions, that's what they are.
"I think you might be right."
He most certainly has such a person. Same as he always did. Now? He suddenly has more of them, and it never ceases to both shock and amaze him. Kell suspects that Lucifer is similarly perplexed by his own developments.