[ The comm was in the next room, so he'd picked it up and answered without even looking at who the caller was, for fear it would hang up before he says anything. Then, when he answers, it does anyway. There's a perplexed frown just before he glances at the recently called list.
It's then that his mind blanks out entirely, jaw dropping so fast it nearly hurts. He hasn't seen that name on his phone for more than a decade, in part because his affiliations made him near impossible to reach, but before that... well, complicated barely begins to cover it.
His chest feels tight because while this is a call he's wanted to have for a long time... here is not where he wanted to have it. Lyle doesn't belong here and the old rage that has abated some during his stay here flares up again because the gods have no right to bring his brother to such a place.
There's not really time to stew over it, though. He has a call to make. Hitting the redial button, anger soon abates into a strange, gut-wrenching nervousness as he wonders if the call will even be picked up. ]
[october 12; late night]
It's then that his mind blanks out entirely, jaw dropping so fast it nearly hurts. He hasn't seen that name on his phone for more than a decade, in part because his affiliations made him near impossible to reach, but before that... well, complicated barely begins to cover it.
His chest feels tight because while this is a call he's wanted to have for a long time... here is not where he wanted to have it. Lyle doesn't belong here and the old rage that has abated some during his stay here flares up again because the gods have no right to bring his brother to such a place.
There's not really time to stew over it, though. He has a call to make. Hitting the redial button, anger soon abates into a strange, gut-wrenching nervousness as he wonders if the call will even be picked up. ]