[Whether or not they should be left behind permanently, or just saved against a day they're necessary again, is a different conversation. Instead, he says:]
There are people, I discovered later, who did not know of the attachment between us, Petrana and I, nearly a full year after we'd begun. Neither of us ever spoke of keeping it secret. There was no particular reason we needed to. But I, at least, never learned another way. We've both been ... it's been a process.
[He might have left it there, but after a short pause:] Anders threw it in my teeth, once. During the lead up to the election of the Divine. I think he couldn't imagine me taking a different position than his unless I cared less.
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[Whether or not they should be left behind permanently, or just saved against a day they're necessary again, is a different conversation. Instead, he says:]
There are people, I discovered later, who did not know of the attachment between us, Petrana and I, nearly a full year after we'd begun. Neither of us ever spoke of keeping it secret. There was no particular reason we needed to. But I, at least, never learned another way. We've both been ... it's been a process.
[He might have left it there, but after a short pause:] Anders threw it in my teeth, once. During the lead up to the election of the Divine. I think he couldn't imagine me taking a different position than his unless I cared less.