[ Cassian hadn't looked away during their conversation so he sees this internal thought process play out. Watches as her gaze turns downwards to focus on Bob Cat who already seems so enamored with her despite not having spent that much time around her. The look she gives the creature is vastly different from the one from before.
There's a nervousness to it, but one a little bit different than what he'd witnessed in the Horizon several months before. Just like last time it had been directly related to the topic of her parents, leaving him wondering if he should tell her that she doesn't have to answer that if she doesn't want to. But then she answers – and he hates that his hunch had been right in some ways.
Cassian's gaze sharpens, jaw tightening at the thought of a young Annabeth, someone who was far too young to have any blame placed on her for a choice that was not hers, deciding that running away from home was the only choice she had available to her. Protectiveness turns his voice into a knife's edge. ]
They blamed you? He didn't try to take you there himself? Your mother didn't do anything to protect you?
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There's a nervousness to it, but one a little bit different than what he'd witnessed in the Horizon several months before. Just like last time it had been directly related to the topic of her parents, leaving him wondering if he should tell her that she doesn't have to answer that if she doesn't want to. But then she answers – and he hates that his hunch had been right in some ways.
Cassian's gaze sharpens, jaw tightening at the thought of a young Annabeth, someone who was far too young to have any blame placed on her for a choice that was not hers, deciding that running away from home was the only choice she had available to her. Protectiveness turns his voice into a knife's edge. ]
They blamed you? He didn't try to take you there himself? Your mother didn't do anything to protect you?