Now I think you are flattering me. Either that or the alcohol has gone to your head. [Diarmuid returns the toast, drinking for the first time, and then laughs, but the smile that follows the laugh is small. Perhaps after the war is won and Diarmuid has had his wish fulfilled, he will be able to completely recognize the great honor it is to have the man he considers his hero speak so highly of him, but right now, the praise is bittersweet.]
I may have remained honorable my whole life, but my loyalty suffered for it. I am fighting to fix that now, though. Things will be made right. [Even if that fight has been delayed at the moment.]
But listen to you. You speak as if your stories are not greater than my own. You were my inspiration as a child. My hero. I would not be who I became had it not been for what you did.
[By the time he was six, Diarmuid had many of Cu Chulainn's stories memorized. They were not scary to him. Not at all. They were his favorite stories to hear...]
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[Diarmuid returns the toast, drinking for the first time, and then laughs, but the smile that follows the laugh is small. Perhaps after the war is won and Diarmuid has had his wish fulfilled, he will be able to completely recognize the great honor it is to have the man he considers his hero speak so highly of him, but right now, the praise is bittersweet.]
I may have remained honorable my whole life, but my loyalty suffered for it. I am fighting to fix that now, though. Things will be made right.
[Even if that fight has been delayed at the moment.]
But listen to you. You speak as if your stories are not greater than my own. You were my inspiration as a child. My hero. I would not be who I became had it not been for what you did.
[By the time he was six, Diarmuid had many of Cu Chulainn's stories memorized. They were not scary to him. Not at all. They were his favorite stories to hear...]