[The intrusion is a bucket of icy water dumped overhead. Richard snaps to awareness immediately, berating himself for having lost focus of his surroundings in the first place. Carefully, he smooths his expression into something neutral before turning to regard the speaker. Given the warning, Richard doesn’t suspect that he was the intended recipient—until he realizes that Sasuke is staring directly at him, with no one else in the area. He pauses, mildly baffled. “It isn’t them?” he wonders, taking care not to allow his confusion to show. Only when he happens to glance back at the bust does he at last understand; the statue is no longer a statue of his father, but of Buckingham. Now, despite the need to keep up appearances, Richard recoils in shock.
A sharp pain lances his heart. The last he saw this beloved visage, it was on the chopping block awaiting the swing of the axe—held in his own two damn hands. Richard is wholly unprepared to be faced with any caricature of his executed lover so suddenly; with tears collecting in his mismatched eyes, he storms a short distance away from the statue.]
How? [he demands sharply, voice fraught with an emotion he’s too terrified to name.] How did you know? When you called out that it was an illusion, it still bore my father’s visage.
[Blinking away the tears angrily, he whirls on Sasuke. Misplaced anger and hurt darken his countenance.]
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A sharp pain lances his heart. The last he saw this beloved visage, it was on the chopping block awaiting the swing of the axe—held in his own two damn hands. Richard is wholly unprepared to be faced with any caricature of his executed lover so suddenly; with tears collecting in his mismatched eyes, he storms a short distance away from the statue.]
How? [he demands sharply, voice fraught with an emotion he’s too terrified to name.] How did you know? When you called out that it was an illusion, it still bore my father’s visage.
[Blinking away the tears angrily, he whirls on Sasuke. Misplaced anger and hurt darken his countenance.]
Well?