[A blessing freely given. They are not at war. For a moment it is as though he can hear Terence, assuring him that despite feeling besieged both on the field and off of it, not everything is a battle.

He is not besieged here and there is no field to speak of; it is only that he is accustomed to conducting himself as such.

Dion exhales a careful breath and unwinds the tension in his bearing]

You have not; such is my own failing, I'm afraid. Never would I seek to set myself against you. It is why I asked Joshua to speak with you. [Though he had done so in the hopes he would have before]

Whilst he is too terribly fond to hold my many crimes against me, you have every reason to do so. Thus I am well aware I have no right to ask aught of you- your blessing least of all.