"...no. I am... frustrated, that I've... mishandled speaking to you so gravely, at our.. failures of communication. If I am angry, that is expressly reserved for your father, for the treatment to which you were subjected, the injustices on which you were raised. You-.."
He pauses a moment, glancing off with a scowl and something of an intense look, his tension growing as he speaks--but this time, deliberately directing it away from Tiamaris.
"...there were those who resented and hated me as a child, as well, for things that were just as much outside my control as the circumstances of your birth were outside of your control. ......I, however, had the advantage of a father who protected me from them, as best he could, and... a step-mother who treated me as her own, where another might have seen a weakness of which she could take advantage. My anger is for the people who have tormented my family out of their resentment and fear of me, and for the man who should have protected you from scorn, not bathed you in it from birth."
He paused again to collect himself. He'd always had a fiery temper, intense and lionhearted, and only with great difficulty had learned caution and restraint.
"...I apologize for my... outbursts, but in some ways, your story strikes close to home, as the saying goes."
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"...no. I am... frustrated, that I've... mishandled speaking to you so gravely, at our.. failures of communication. If I am angry, that is expressly reserved for your father, for the treatment to which you were subjected, the injustices on which you were raised. You-.."
He pauses a moment, glancing off with a scowl and something of an intense look, his tension growing as he speaks--but this time, deliberately directing it away from Tiamaris.
"...there were those who resented and hated me as a child, as well, for things that were just as much outside my control as the circumstances of your birth were outside of your control. ......I, however, had the advantage of a father who protected me from them, as best he could, and... a step-mother who treated me as her own, where another might have seen a weakness of which she could take advantage. My anger is for the people who have tormented my family out of their resentment and fear of me, and for the man who should have protected you from scorn, not bathed you in it from birth."
He paused again to collect himself. He'd always had a fiery temper, intense and lionhearted, and only with great difficulty had learned caution and restraint.
"...I apologize for my... outbursts, but in some ways, your story strikes close to home, as the saying goes."