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Isiah laughed a little, slinging an arm around Tsurai. "Back when there were cities and places where you could blend in, Tsurai, that would have been okay. But we can't chance wandering off into the unknown again. I've gotten too used to food and water." He smiled weakly, though his eyes were elsewhere.

"And I don't think it would take Kaegan long.. or at least, the others- to find the little paradise you were staying in."

Braeden stood from his place at long last, jogging over to Connor's to look for Tsurai. Instead, he saw Connor inside. He moved partially into the hovel, leaning against the doorway. "So. What are you and mary queen of fags gonna do? Stick around?"

Isiah laughed again, this time, much more robust, if darker in nature. "Don't you worry," He spoke quietly. "I won't get hurt."

He stroked Tsurai's hair idly, taking comfort in being so loved again by the boy who'd so easily abandoned him. "I just have to figure this out.."

Braeden shrugged, rubbing his thumb and finger together. "Not like I have a buck to give you.. But I dunno. I think there's a couple of ways you two could manipulate the situation to your advantage."

"Me too, kid." He groaned. "I made my bed, Tsurai, now I gotta lay in it."

Braeden shrugged, rolling his eyes upward. "Well, I dunno Connor. Isiah's gonna have something I want pretty bad once he gets Kaegan out of the way, and I can say.. take it off your hands pretty easily. Happy ending, right?" He quirked a brow upward, smiling. "Shouldn't be too hard to organize."

"Have you always been this ********' stupid? I mean to say, were you born that way? Or did it just happen overnight?" Braeden rolled his eyes, grunting. "You wanna hear my idea or not, dumbshit?"

Isiah laughed. "That's not what that means.. it means that if you make a mistake you have to see it through, whether you want to or not."

"Chienne," Braeden quipped back, extending his middle finger. "You're gonna regret being such a slut when your time comes, ********." Braeden shrugged and walked away back toward the hovel he was supposedly sharing with Tsurai.

Isiah smiled. "Not everyone is as nice as I am, Tsurai."

He grunted. "You don't need to know all of it. Old habits die hard with Kaegan, Tsurai... And yes, Kaegan was very important to me, a long time ago. And I thought maybe I could forgive him for what he let happen to me. I wanted to. I want to. But I don't think I can. He's making it impossible." He pushed hair out of Tsurai's eyes in a motherly way, sighing.

"There's no easy way out of this one."

"He called Connor a f*****t," He spat, almost as though he couldn't even hold it back. Word vomit. "He just.. knows how to ********' piss me off."

He sighed, stroking Tsurai's hair. "Don't apologize for how you are."

Isiah grunted. "What it means, Tsurai... All these years I thought he'd accepted me, and what he'd let happen had to happen, because he couldn't fight it.. But I was wrong, Tsurai. I assumed men could change. That was wrong, too."