[Envy's grip tightens around Wrath as the kid just goes off, and it really has been a long time since this happened. Much less it happening when Wrath is trying to hold onto him. He could count the times on one hand.]
[And one of those times, one that sticks out in his memory...it was just after Sloth had died, when the young homunculus had tried desperately pleading with their master to just bring her back.]
[He remembers what happened that time, what he'd done on Dante's prompting and beyond that.]
[He's accepted that she hurt them, all of them, and used them badly.]
[But she's not the only one who'd hurt the others. He had too, whether on her direction or by standing aside as it happened. He should have been protecting them the way he tries to now, but that's not what happened. She'd hurt them and he'd let her and barely even cared. With one more squeeze to Wrath's shoulders, he turns again to face the specter of their master.]
I let her hurt you before, but not again.
[For the first time, there seems to be a change in the ghost's expression, one that's almost prompting. Finally, the one it was trying to help seems to be getting at what he needed to.]
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[Envy's grip tightens around Wrath as the kid just goes off, and it really has been a long time since this happened. Much less it happening when Wrath is trying to hold onto him. He could count the times on one hand.]
[And one of those times, one that sticks out in his memory...it was just after Sloth had died, when the young homunculus had tried desperately pleading with their master to just bring her back.]
[He remembers what happened that time, what he'd done on Dante's prompting and beyond that.]
[He's accepted that she hurt them, all of them, and used them badly.]
[But she's not the only one who'd hurt the others. He had too, whether on her direction or by standing aside as it happened. He should have been protecting them the way he tries to now, but that's not what happened. She'd hurt them and he'd let her and barely even cared. With one more squeeze to Wrath's shoulders, he turns again to face the specter of their master.]
I let her hurt you before, but not again.
[For the first time, there seems to be a change in the ghost's expression, one that's almost prompting. Finally, the one it was trying to help seems to be getting at what he needed to.]