[ Because even when he'd said it twice, Byerly had managed to not say yes or no. A pause, watching him. ]
Could you have contacted her, if you wanted to? [ Wash doesn't know what the circumstances of Byerly being disowned are, doesn't know what that means, half-suspects he wasn't ever really disowned, that it's something -- more, than that. With how much he obviously cared about her, still cares about her, there must be something keeping him from her. What he doesn't know if it's Byerly himself, or something else. A pause. ] Before these time-traveling adventures.
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[ Because even when he'd said it twice, Byerly had managed to not say yes or no. A pause, watching him. ]
Could you have contacted her, if you wanted to? [ Wash doesn't know what the circumstances of Byerly being disowned are, doesn't know what that means, half-suspects he wasn't ever really disowned, that it's something -- more, than that. With how much he obviously cared about her, still cares about her, there must be something keeping him from her. What he doesn't know if it's Byerly himself, or something else. A pause. ] Before these time-traveling adventures.