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Connor coughed, lying his hand on the cloth, feeling Isiah there, and calmed down.
"I did a stupid thing," he said, piecing it all together, his head still throbbing and light.
"For some insane reason I protected Tsurai, and in the process, told Kaegan Sim is dead. He lost it."

Taking in a few more deep breaths, Connor continued hoarsing, his throat still incredibly sore. "I had the upper hand for a while. But he figured out my weakness and exploited it rather quickly. I ended up passing myself out."

He tried to slow his breaths, and was doing a decent job. "That kid is dangerous. Kaegan and you cuddle him too much."

"Anyone can break bones, Isiah. Don't worry about me." He took the cloth from Isiah and tried to open his eyes. Grunting, a few blinks later he could see.

"You think you can re-set my nose?" He looked at the rag in his hand, seeing all the blood. With a groan, he let his arm fall to the floor.

"Kaegan's doing it the wrong way. He cut off Tsurai's tags. Now he's worse off than before. The little I see of Tsurai, I can tell... He has no backbone, and I admit that I was wrong about it being an act. But now Kaegan took the only string Tsurai had holding him together. I don't know Tsurai well enough to predict what happens when he falls apart."

Connor winced, now breathing normally. "Kaegan always thinks its for the best giving kids hurdles to jump over by themselves. Tsurai doesn't jump when he wants to jump... He waits for someone else to tell him. Your alpha created this big wall Tsurai doesn't know what to do with."

The Romani cringed. "Auugh.."
After a second of recovery, the pain from his nose faded into the rest of the throbbing coming from his bruised and battered face.

"I'm doing it for you," he grumbled.

"About what?" Connor hoarsed.

"You made a big scene saving me, didn't you? Then it would be your own fault."

Connor sat up with a slight groan. "You should've never gotten involved with them."
He waited a moment before standing up. "You should've just let me lie there instead of going against your alpha."
Connor grimaced.

"I'm going to go find your kid, I should really stay out of this whole ordeal." He moved toward the door.

Connor frowned.
"He ran off crying somewhere. Kaegan said I scared him off, when I was passing by. By the look on Tsurai's face, that's only a very small part of it."

He closed his eyes and swallowed, "Kaegan and I got into a conversation about the dogtags. I told him what they meant, that Kaegan cutting them off was a stupid thing to do. Kaegan tried to justify his actions, saying Tsurai was better off, that the DuPloys were dead and so was their culture. Like worshipping a dead god, he said. I told him he should think about what he says before he says it. Sim is dead. Then Kaegan got protective over his own dying culture."

He shrugged off Isiah's hand and began to walk out, "I don't want to be involved in your Denzien debackle."

"Just because my face took a few hits does not mean I am bedridden." Connor frowned.
"You have your own crap to deal with right now. You need to deal with it, not Tsurai."