[Waver knew this was coming--a fact that was now written all over his face--but this wasn't how he'd hoped to approach the subject. Diarmuid could have at least heard it from him, but he'd hesitated and tripped over the existence of a timeline he barely understood and began to fear was more prevalent than Waver had ever contemplated.]
I-...
[Where to even start, with as little and yet as much information as he had? There was no way of knowing how a situation like that would end, but in a way didn't he already know? Nothing good could ever come of it--not for Diarmuid, certainly. And if Waver wanted to extrapolate from the current theory, the fact that a priest he'd never met had known a Lord El-Melloi II led Waver to suspect it likely the war didn't go well for Kayneth in that reality either.]
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[Waver knew this was coming--a fact that was now written all over his face--but this wasn't how he'd hoped to approach the subject. Diarmuid could have at least heard it from him, but he'd hesitated and tripped over the existence of a timeline he barely understood and began to fear was more prevalent than Waver had ever contemplated.]
I-...
[Where to even start, with as little and yet as much information as he had? There was no way of knowing how a situation like that would end, but in a way didn't he already know? Nothing good could ever come of it--not for Diarmuid, certainly. And if Waver wanted to extrapolate from the current theory, the fact that a priest he'd never met had known a Lord El-Melloi II led Waver to suspect it likely the war didn't go well for Kayneth in that reality either.]
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