933 Order in Short Time - Part 10

"What was this advice you were set to give?" Oliver asked, suddenly curious. The conversation had made him uncomfortable to degrees that he would struggle to express, but his curiosity still won out.

"I have forgotten it. It is now irrelevant, after all," Hod said, as strange a man as he ever was.

"…Still, as out of place as this topic was, I think the Minister, for once, gives some semblance of good counsel – that is, if we simply reduce his counsel down to something better. If you are indeed thinking of marriage, Patrick, you would do well to choose wisely. There have been… instances, where marriages have caused more problems than they had anticipated. Or when affairs of the heart have brought about wars that could best have been avoided," Tavar said. He refused to meet Oliver's gaze as he said that. Something about the way he said it made Oliver so sure about his conclusion that he said it aloud.

"You knew," he said.