[Genuinely so. Julius had never been pleased to have to hide, but that aside, his time on the road after the Circles fell had been a taste of another life, and not one without its charms. He wasn't inclined to romanticize it -- keeping himself fed and housed hadn't always been easy. But there were things he missed, too.]
It's common knowledge I wasn't fighting before Corypheus changed the stakes. I was worried, when I first came, that it might be a problem. It hasn't been, for the most part, at least not in ways that impede the work. But it's not as if I had an impressive "immediately before" myself.
[While it's framed as commiseration, it's also something of a quiet test. Julius' lack of participation in the Mage-Templar war is no secret, but he doesn't have a sense of whether it's something that Marcus in particular will judge him for.]
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[Genuinely so. Julius had never been pleased to have to hide, but that aside, his time on the road after the Circles fell had been a taste of another life, and not one without its charms. He wasn't inclined to romanticize it -- keeping himself fed and housed hadn't always been easy. But there were things he missed, too.]
It's common knowledge I wasn't fighting before Corypheus changed the stakes. I was worried, when I first came, that it might be a problem. It hasn't been, for the most part, at least not in ways that impede the work. But it's not as if I had an impressive "immediately before" myself.
[While it's framed as commiseration, it's also something of a quiet test. Julius' lack of participation in the Mage-Templar war is no secret, but he doesn't have a sense of whether it's something that Marcus in particular will judge him for.]