Of all the places for Ed to go in that moment, it had to be that one.
Oswald would have liked more time to process, to strategise, to decide how best to approach all of this and to what end.
He should have been expecting the question, but something also tells him that no matter when Ed asked it then it would have caught him a little on the blindside.
Of course, he could bluster and try to string together an excuse that's an obvious lie, but that would be insulting to Ed. And despite everything, Oswald is not inclined to stoop so low.
He holds Ed's eye for as long as he can, right up until he can't anymore at which point he makes a rather obvious turn of his head as worries his teeth with his tongue, his thoughts heavy and muddled.
"No. No, it was not a simple disagreement, Edward."
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Oswald would have liked more time to process, to strategise, to decide how best to approach all of this and to what end.
He should have been expecting the question, but something also tells him that no matter when Ed asked it then it would have caught him a little on the blindside.
Of course, he could bluster and try to string together an excuse that's an obvious lie, but that would be insulting to Ed. And despite everything, Oswald is not inclined to stoop so low.
He holds Ed's eye for as long as he can, right up until he can't anymore at which point he makes a rather obvious turn of his head as worries his teeth with his tongue, his thoughts heavy and muddled.
"No. No, it was not a simple disagreement, Edward."