This is not a conversation that Kell is ready to have. He can agree to share his plan and his idea, but questioning his relationship with Rhy is never going to go well with him. Or at least not yet. It's not Rhy's fault, nor even his wish. It just is -- complicated. More complicated now that it has ever been before.
Kell won't argue he doesn't want to be independent. Quite the contrary. But also what happened to Rhy was at least partially his fault. While Kell did what he could, what no one else but him could have done, to fix it. He saved Rhy, but he also made their situation more complicated. They were already connected by more than just the bond Singularity replaced.
"But we do!" he protests. "I have my own thing, he has his. We're perfectly fine as is. And I'm not doing this for him. I just want to do it for right reasons."
The scariest part is that Kell truly believes what he says. But then there still is a barely healed scar on Rhy's forearm, and the fact that Kell would drop everything he does, all of his plans for Rhy at the slightest pretext. They're more intertwined that he's aware of.
this is going to kick him soooo much down the road
Kell won't argue he doesn't want to be independent. Quite the contrary. But also what happened to Rhy was at least partially his fault. While Kell did what he could, what no one else but him could have done, to fix it. He saved Rhy, but he also made their situation more complicated. They were already connected by more than just the bond Singularity replaced.
"But we do!" he protests. "I have my own thing, he has his. We're perfectly fine as is. And I'm not doing this for him. I just want to do it for right reasons."
The scariest part is that Kell truly believes what he says. But then there still is a barely healed scar on Rhy's forearm, and the fact that Kell would drop everything he does, all of his plans for Rhy at the slightest pretext. They're more intertwined that he's aware of.