[ Bigby quietly watches the other man for a moment.
He could tell Konstantin how obvious he's being. Maybe not to your regular person, but to someone who knows exactly where to look for the signs like Bigby? He couldn't possibly be more obvious. Just the choice of the word monsters by itself is saying so much, and it's also saying a lot about the reasons why Konstantin isn't coming clean to him about whatever specifically is going on with him.
It's because he thinks himself a monster. It's not a sentiment that's foreign to Bigby. He's been called a monster. Still called that, sometimes.
He doesn't think they're wrong.
But at least he can be open about what he is. Konstantin clearly hasn't reached that level yet. He's running away from it - quite literally, with what he's saying in the end there.
.. Bigby doesn't say any of it. Maybe it's better to let the other man live with it for now. It's not like there's many people in town who can see the signs of something other as well as Bigby can, having been surrounded by it all his life, being born from it.
Instead-- he just nods. ]
Sure.
[ He will just let Konstantin go. ]
You can go. I'll stay here for a while more. For-- [ .. he pauses, gesturing vaguely at the feathers that litter on the floor of the church. ] For him.
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He could tell Konstantin how obvious he's being. Maybe not to your regular person, but to someone who knows exactly where to look for the signs like Bigby? He couldn't possibly be more obvious. Just the choice of the word monsters by itself is saying so much, and it's also saying a lot about the reasons why Konstantin isn't coming clean to him about whatever specifically is going on with him.
It's because he thinks himself a monster. It's not a sentiment that's foreign to Bigby. He's been called a monster. Still called that, sometimes.
He doesn't think they're wrong.
But at least he can be open about what he is. Konstantin clearly hasn't reached that level yet. He's running away from it - quite literally, with what he's saying in the end there.
.. Bigby doesn't say any of it. Maybe it's better to let the other man live with it for now. It's not like there's many people in town who can see the signs of something other as well as Bigby can, having been surrounded by it all his life, being born from it.
Instead-- he just nods. ]
Sure.
[ He will just let Konstantin go. ]
You can go. I'll stay here for a while more. For-- [ .. he pauses, gesturing vaguely at the feathers that litter on the floor of the church. ] For him.