Chapter 352: You’re going to be late
When they got back to the Guild, Gunther disappeared. He’d been nervous and fidgety the whole time Kellen had been driving back to the Guild, and he could understand why.
Casper was still in the Guild tower, but he hadn’t left the rooms given to him by Rhys and Pamela. He wasn’t even in his normal rooms for...reasons. Gunther, who knew he didn’t have impulse control, had asked Rhys to make sure that Casper was in different rooms, at least until he left for his mission. Gunther had regained some of his senses, and after speaking to Rhys, had decided that was for the best.
Gunther reaffirmed that he didn’t want to hurt Casper, never had, but also realised slowly that his image of a happy relationship for others was different from what he had assumed a happy relationship for himself. He spoke to Hill a lot, as well as Brent and a few of the other A Class Espers. He was allowed visitors, and that seemed to be a smart thing to do as over the few days since his talk with Rhys, he had become more stable.
He wasn’t the same Gunther he had been before all of this, but he was getting back some parts of himself. He realised that Casper should be kept away from him for the time being, until both of them had sorted out their feelings. Gunther said that he didn’t think his would ever change, and that he didn’t want Casper’s to change either, but he understood that it wasn’t his choice.
Due to this, and the fact that Casper wasn’t stable either right now, Casper was being kept in the dark that Gunther was leaving until after he left. He was being told that Gunther and Rhys were going to have a public falling out, but not when it was happening so that he didn’t go searching for Gunther, or vice versa.
Gunther was trying to speed run this, since he knew he was unstable. Kellen felt that since he’d been given something to do, he was now trying to get that done. Maybe Gunther thought that if he got in good with the terrorists as soon as possible, the faster he could prove to himself, and everyone else that he was good.
He wasn’t a monster.
Or maybe he just wanted to prove that to Casper, Kellen didn’t know.
Kellen was just glad that they were able to go speak to Carlos before everything took off. Pamela was working her little heart out trying to get this set up, and Rhys was doing the same.