"I created a program to interpret a magical robotic bee's connection with my thoughts while I was learning English, yes," Henry clarified, because his and Ronan's phrases had important semantic differences. Ronan's, after all, implied that Henry could not control RoboBee without the program; Henry's, of course, was the truth.
It also helped to cover the smart of discomfort that bringing up Gansey put in Henry's chest. He and Gansey had been casual acquaintances at school long before those past days before Henry's arrival. But the shift--the hopeful shift--was a deliberate one.
"Because I gave him all my secrets," Henry said, meeting Ronan's gaze, because that seemed terribly important right now. A test. "And asked nothing more valuable of him than trust. I stood in a hole in the ground, barely big enough for him and I, and told him about being held in a hole in the ground because awful men who hated my mother water RoboBee, because your father hadn't sold it to them. He held the tangible link, a thing that looks most terrifying to him. And I--knowing he would tell you all everything I told him in that hole, knowing he would give you my secrets--asked him if he could trust me."
Henry shrugged. "But I was here, in Darrow, before he could say. And he is not. So now, I work for it."
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Date: 2016-07-12 05:57 am (UTC)It also helped to cover the smart of discomfort that bringing up Gansey put in Henry's chest. He and Gansey had been casual acquaintances at school long before those past days before Henry's arrival. But the shift--the hopeful shift--was a deliberate one.
"Because I gave him all my secrets," Henry said, meeting Ronan's gaze, because that seemed terribly important right now. A test. "And asked nothing more valuable of him than trust. I stood in a hole in the ground, barely big enough for him and I, and told him about being held in a hole in the ground because awful men who hated my mother water RoboBee, because your father hadn't sold it to them. He held the tangible link, a thing that looks most terrifying to him. And I--knowing he would tell you all everything I told him in that hole, knowing he would give you my secrets--asked him if he could trust me."
Henry shrugged. "But I was here, in Darrow, before he could say. And he is not. So now, I work for it."