[Once, he had Kostos pinned against the stones of the garden ( someone else's garden, their parents were visiting, they were bored) with an arm twisted behind his back, and Kostos had screamed TRUCE, and Nikos had let up, and Kostos had turned around and slapped Nikos in the eye.
Once, a well-meaning but unfamiliar third cousin--older than them by only fifteen years, used to kind children, driven mad by their particular brand of sibling savagery--had locked Nikos and Kostos in a room together and told them rather hysterically they would be left there until they apologized to one another, and it wasn't until the next morning that their parents realized they were missing, tracked down the cousin, who led them to the room, where all involved found the Nikos and Kostos sitting right where they had been left, glaring at one another.
Once, Kostos and Nikos had, at the same time, in a feat of synchronization that would have impressed in another setting, shoved back their chairs and stood up and screamed I WOULD RATHER DIE within a breath of one another, and this after a tutor told them to stop deliberately dripping ink on one another's letters and apologize.
All of which means that Nikos scans the almost-apology for anything suspicious. But it's suspicious by nature, in that it is even close to an apology--even when the second bit comes.
Hm.]
Why, so I could have fully beat your brains into a wall? There's always next time.
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Date: 2019-08-21 11:08 pm (UTC)Once, a well-meaning but unfamiliar third cousin--older than them by only fifteen years, used to kind children, driven mad by their particular brand of sibling savagery--had locked Nikos and Kostos in a room together and told them rather hysterically they would be left there until they apologized to one another, and it wasn't until the next morning that their parents realized they were missing, tracked down the cousin, who led them to the room, where all involved found the Nikos and Kostos sitting right where they had been left, glaring at one another.
Once, Kostos and Nikos had, at the same time, in a feat of synchronization that would have impressed in another setting, shoved back their chairs and stood up and screamed I WOULD RATHER DIE within a breath of one another, and this after a tutor told them to stop deliberately dripping ink on one another's letters and apologize.
All of which means that Nikos scans the almost-apology for anything suspicious. But it's suspicious by nature, in that it is even close to an apology--even when the second bit comes.
Hm.]
Why, so I could have fully beat your brains into a wall? There's always next time.
[And, also--]
What is this?