This time, he doesn’t hear Gilmore’s voice in his doubts; but, then again, that voice was always his. He leans in, and the illusion of Vax does the same. Something in the strangeness of Vax’s expression piques Shaun, and it takes him a long while to find the root of it in the lack of tension around the half-elf’s eyes and mouth. Shaun’s imaginings lack the real Vax’s guardedness, and in the moment when he realizes just how much they both wear their respective masks, the storm breaks loose.
