He sighs as Dirk breaks the kiss to speak. What useless protestation to call the conversation finished. But as he hears those words that the other man places between them, a look of startled understanding crosses his features.

He furrows his brows for a moment, just staring into Dirk's eyes. "That is a fundamental misunderstanding of what I want. I should have understood sooner that we were not discussing a matter with the same terms. I do not simply want Hades to myself. I want both of you, together, with me. As for why—"

He glances at the hand on his wrist. He would prefer to make his point with the chalkboard, but he's confident that this matter is simple enough that Dirk should have little of it to twist.

"...If you were to build a tower, as tall and strong as you possibly could, how would you do it? Would you make it like a rungless ladder and gaze towards the heavens to watch it collapse? ...Or would you give it strength and balance by constructing it from triangles to redistribute weight and force? It is because we complete one another. This is why I made you take the stone of Azem, not to fill a seat for a Convocation of a dead society. The Sun, the Earth, and the Moon need one another. If you allowed us to love one another thus, we could forge such a bond."