Yellow eyes, unhidden if not quite unguarded, flick to Gabriel's face and then away again.
"For a while, anyway. We worked together, every now and again; in the short-term, at least, that faction - " (the Red, he avoids saying, irrationally uncomfortable with the word), " - and my... side have had some of the same goals."
He did what he had to do, to get Bentley into the fold, to make Bentley the best. There's no shame in his face.
"'Course, I was funnelling money to Tet at the same time. And if they didn't suspect after the incident at the Academy," Crowley's mug turns slowly in restless hands, widdershins, "I more or less blew my cover for good when Bentley declared for you. I'm not just a business or political rival anymore."
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Yellow eyes, unhidden if not quite unguarded, flick to Gabriel's face and then away again.
"For a while, anyway. We worked together, every now and again; in the short-term, at least, that faction - " (the Red, he avoids saying, irrationally uncomfortable with the word), " - and my... side have had some of the same goals."
He did what he had to do, to get Bentley into the fold, to make Bentley the best. There's no shame in his face.
"'Course, I was funnelling money to Tet at the same time. And if they didn't suspect after the incident at the Academy," Crowley's mug turns slowly in restless hands, widdershins, "I more or less blew my cover for good when Bentley declared for you. I'm not just a business or political rival anymore."