❛   ─   i am aware. but there is also a very fine line between what we have to be and making excuses to not be better...   ❜   oliver responds.   ❛   what i am not really clear on, is what it is i can do for you, talia? why are you here in star city?   ❜   it was a reasonable question to ask, of course, given that it’d been many years since their paths had crossed. she had taught him that he needed to separate the two aspects of himself, to put on a different persona that could take over and carry out the tasks that oliver queen could not be associated with. it was a set of ideals that he had taken with him, back to star city, submerging himself back into the jigsaw puzzle that had been his life.   ❛   ─   you’ll have excuse me, but usually, when people from my past come back, unexpectedly... it’s almost never with good reason.   ❜

       ❛   ─   I WOULDN’T GO THAT FAR. my mother worries, yes, and while sure i can say a fair amount of it is unwarranted... i’d be lying if i said i didn’t understand.   ❜   oliver states. he could appreciate his mothers concerns, since coming back, it would be a lie to say that he was the same as he’d been prior to his five year long absence. however the hovering did, in some ways, make what he needed to do a tad more difficult.   ❛   look... lydia, correct? ─ food just got delivered and it’s way too much food for me to eat ALONE. if you want you can stay, eat some food, and then you can report back that i am, indeed, not starving to death.   ❜

       ❛   ─   LEARNED A LOT  while starring in my own version of castaway. one of those things being the beauty of good ol’ fashioned... food delivery.   ❜

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