If you didn't notice, and I don't say anything, then yeah, it's basically the same as if it never happened.
But is it really the same?
Can you really just brush it off that lightly?
"But if it really worked like that, wouldn't that mean you're the only one swallowing all the grievance?"
Herbert didn't think so.
Some things, once they happen, have happened. They don't vanish into thin air; they just pile up, slowly swelling larger and larger.
The wound of betrayal never heals.
And his own carelessness, in a way, could actually be seen as a kind of "betrayal" of Fremay's feelings.
"Fremay, don't you go saddling me with the sin of 'betrayal,' okay?"
When Herbert finished speaking in that relaxed tone, he felt himself being hugged tight.
Arms that looked weak wrapped around him, and that gorgeous fish tail coiled around him hard.
