"You are delusional, highblood. Vantas never treated you like a friend until it benefited him to do so. Just like nobody treated me like a fucking person. I am the punchline, don't you see that?" Equius muttered, looking down at the ground between them, turning blue around the ears when he heard himself. On reflex he grabbed for a towel that was suddenly there around his shoulders, wiping it across his brow. "And then you killed the only one that ever spoke to me like I was worth anything more than an idiot joke in a very bad story. So you will excuse me if I don't exactly sympathize with your plight."