@araneorum ( odessa blackthorn ) sent "You could have done more… why didn't you do more?"
normally , he wouldn't have even searched for odessa . was that the truth ? if he dug deep enough , down into what remained of his ( formerly ) sensitive soul , he knew it was the truth . how long had he spent ignoring that sensitive part of himself ? in that moment of honesty , both to himself && potentially to his daughter , he realized that he'd spent the better part of his life ignoring the part of himself that was sensitive . was that completely true ? no , he had been sensitive several times in the past . granted , those times were strictly with odessa . no one else had seen that part of the blackwood patriarch . it wasn't his fault the sacred twenty - eight came with its own pressures .
those pressures , admittedly , were ones he'd sloughed off in his “ death . ”
“ i was on the run , ” he says , tone rather even && controlled . he couldn't really figure out where that level of control had come from , but it didn't worry him . perhaps , there was some concern that he was losing his mind . he had teetered on that path for a few years , balancing the line between sane && completely off the hinges . he'd been spending too much time with bellatrix , too much time with the less sane members of the dark lord's growing entourage . rather unfortunately , he couldn't quite hold himself to that same standard . “ did you want me to come back when it was not safe for either of us ? ”
what concerned him , at that point , was the break in his voice . he tried keeping it so under control, but it was not possible . he was emotional , he was vulnerable , && frankly not in a good place for any serious conversations . so , he tried burying those emotions . he shoved them down , perhaps deeper than recommended , && sat in one of the chairs in odessa's living room . it was nice , maybe nicer than he had expected . questions , ones that he had no reason to ask , almost settled onto his tongue before he reconsidered . no , he wasn't going to pry like that .
there were so many things he had done in the past , && so many that he were going to do in the future , that he needed to make some attempt to do one good thing . maybe , in some way , checking on his daughter was a good thing . there were other things he wanted to do , but what he shouldn't do . he wasn't sure what she'd gone through , && knew that he had no right or reason to ask for information like that .
silas cleared his throat then , trying to diffuse some tension . “ would you want me to leave ? ”