He's hesitant for the first second, but begins to return it, just as meaningfully.
"Uncle Cuthbert said", he murmurs as it ends, "from back before I was old enough to have feelings about anybody, that anything but a man and a woman together in marriage was inspired by the devil. He was fire and brimstone..."
And Athelstan doesn't feel inspired by the devil now - though there's still a voice, and he knows whose, in the back of his mind saying pointedly, How would you know?
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Date: 2015-07-24 11:04 am (UTC)"Uncle Cuthbert said", he murmurs as it ends, "from back before I was old enough to have feelings about anybody, that anything but a man and a woman together in marriage was inspired by the devil. He was fire and brimstone..."
And Athelstan doesn't feel inspired by the devil now - though there's still a voice, and he knows whose, in the back of his mind saying pointedly, How would you know?