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Rose saw her father reach for his phone and her patience snapped completely.“What the hell are you doing?”Her father's head turned sharply. “What does it look like I'm doing?” His voice came out loud and raw, the kind of loud that had nothing to do with wanting anyone to hear him and everything to do with the fact that he had been sitting on this feeling for too long and it had finally taken over completely. “I'm sick and tired of this. Sitting here, waiting, listening to empty words from a man who hasn't been able to help himself a single day since I've known him.” He pointed at Alex, not looking at him directly, the way people point at something they don't want to give too much attention to. “You want me to hand my wife's life to him? To his words? To whatever this is?” He shook his head hard. “No. That is never going to happen. I'm calling Jonathan right now and there is absolutely nothing you are going to say that will stop me.”He turned to Rose fully then, and the anger on
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Alex glanced down at his phone screen and then back up.“It's my friend,” he said simply, and stepped away from where he was standing to take the call.The moment the line connected, the voice on the other end didn't waste a second.“Master, what do you want us to do? This is an S-level gate. A black S-level gate. That means at minimum two Gods of War need to be on the ground before anything meaningful can happen.” The voice was calm but tight underneath it, the kind of calm that comes from someone who is holding a lot of urgency behind professional control. “The military is trying to put together a strong team, we can see that, but the more time they spend assembling, the worse the situation gets on that mountain. If those monsters reach a certain number before anyone steps in, clearing them all at once becomes a completely different problem. We are ready to move. So I need to know — do we sweep in?”Alex didn't answer immediately.He stood by the window with the phone pressed to hi
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Her voice was quiet. Not the quiet of someone who is backing down the quiet of someone who has decided that the most effective thing they can say is the simplest thing, delivered without decoration.“You do it constantly,”she continued, and there was no heat in the words, which somehow made them land harder than heat would have. “You look at someone, you make a decision about what they are and what they are capable of, and then you hold that decision regardless of what the evidence says. Regardless of what you see. Regardless of what happens right in front of you.” She looked at her father steadily, and the look was not unkind but it was absolutely direct. “I have watched you do it my entire life. I have watched you dismiss people who turned out to be extraordinary, and I have watched you elevate people who turned out to be ordinary, and I have watched you refuse to revise either assessment even when the facts demanded revision.” She paused. “I am asking you to stop. Not for his s
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The anger that came off Rose's father in the wake of Rose's plea was a different quality of anger from what had come before. The earlier outburst had been the explosive, pressure-release anger of a frightened man finding a target. This was something colder and more sustained the anger of a man who has watched something happen that he finds genuinely incomprehensible and cannot locate the framework that would allow him to make sense of it.He looked at his daughter with an expression that was equal parts fury and bewilderment, and when he spoke, his voice had the tight, controlled quality of someone who is working very hard to keep the full force of what they are feeling from coming out all at once.“What the hell do you think you are doing?”The words landed in the room like stones dropped into still water, sending ripples outward through the charged atmosphere that had been building since the moment Rose and Alex had walked through the door. He took a step toward Rose, his hands comi
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Her father opened his mouth.“I am not saying this to dismiss you,” Rose said, before he could speak. “I am not saying this to take his side or to be difficult or because I am not thinking clearly. I am saying it because it is true, and because you deserve to hear the truth right now rather than a version of it that makes you feel better for five minutes and then fails.” She looked at him with the direct, unflinching gaze of a daughter who loves her father and is not going to lie to him. “Those names are not the answer. You know they are not the answer. You are reaching for them because they are what you have, and I understand that, I genuinely understand that, but reaching for the wrong thing harder does not make it the right thing.”The room was quiet for a moment.Rose's father stood in the middle of it, and the fight had gone out of him not defeated, exactly, but emptied, the way a person is emptied when they have spent everything they have and found that it was not enough and do
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The frustration had been building in Rose's father since the moment Alex had opened his mouth, and it finally found its breaking point in the measured, analytical delivery of a man who was treating the potential death of his wife like a tactical assessment.“Will you shut your mouth.”The words came out hard and sudden, cutting across the room with the force of something that had been held under pressure for too long and had finally blown through whatever was containing it. Rose's father took a step forward, his hands no longer hanging at his sides but clenched, his face flushed with the particular color of a man whose fear has curdled into anger because anger is easier to inhabit than fear and he has been living in fear for the last forty minutes without anywhere to put it.“You crazy bastard,” he said, and the words were not measured or careful or constructed with any awareness of how they sounded. They were the raw output of a man who was frightened and helpless and had found a tar
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