You know the kind of pause someone makes before they ask you for a clarification that means they don't want to answer a question? Yeah.

"During the trial?" The way Damen speaks is with full awareness that this is not what Laurent is asking him. "Not at all."

There isn't really a good way to tell the person you love that because you couldn't kill your brother, they may have had to kneel in a worryingly large pool of your own blood and that you actually have a weird gap in your memory where the several weeks you spent trying not to die would go. There are, however, a lot of bad ways.

"Am I not here now? Is that not what matters?"