[Which is good enough for him. Zane's run out of arguments, and he's less frantic, at least on the surface, so Cassel considers that he's done the best he can do.]
[Of course, he'd also be well within his rights to push further, harder, until Zane snaps like a rubber band. He can see the possibility, even the probability - although he could see it much more clearly ten minutes ago - and by the unspoken laws he knows like the lines of his palm, eye for an eye, pain for pain, that's how the game is played.]
[But it's a different game here.]
[Instead, he lets his head rest on Zane's shoulder again and doesn't say a damn thing.]
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[Of course, he'd also be well within his rights to push further, harder, until Zane snaps like a rubber band. He can see the possibility, even the probability - although he could see it much more clearly ten minutes ago - and by the unspoken laws he knows like the lines of his palm, eye for an eye, pain for pain, that's how the game is played.]
[But it's a different game here.]
[Instead, he lets his head rest on Zane's shoulder again and doesn't say a damn thing.]