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Stede’s deflecting.
Stede falls asleep first, that night, and Ed whispers his revelations to Izzy in the nighttime darkness.
“Why the fuck would he do that?” Izzy whispers back. “Fucker loves attention.”
This is one of the harder parts of it, but Ed makes himself verbalize it— that’s part of what this whole thing is about, anyway— and answers, “Mate, I don’t think he really believes us.”
“I f—” Izzy starts, then stops. “He knows I fucking love him.”
“I know he knows it, mate,” Ed insists, “but I don’t think he gets it. Y’know what I mean?”