[It didn't come out angry, just exasperated. Why were they like this? Why was it that even in the most personal of crises, they refused to think of themselves?]
Dio wasn't there.
[And he said it deliberately, in a way that made it clear he didn't approve of dodging around the use of his name as though it might summon him, but then he - hesitated. Frowned. Looked down at his cappuccino for a moment.]
no subject
[It didn't come out angry, just exasperated. Why were they like this? Why was it that even in the most personal of crises, they refused to think of themselves?]
Dio wasn't there.
[And he said it deliberately, in a way that made it clear he didn't approve of dodging around the use of his name as though it might summon him, but then he - hesitated. Frowned. Looked down at his cappuccino for a moment.]
. . . Just me.