i’m just reading this again after letting it marinate for years and i don’t understand why the bottom betrayed the top??? he quite literally gained nothing from that whole ordeal, am i supposed to believe that someone as smart as the mc would rely on a psychopath who taxidermies living things over the ML who isn’t great but still obviously better than his cousin? just feels like misery porn for the sake of it
i’m just reading this again after letting it marinate for years and i don’t understand why the bottom betrayed the top??? he quite literally gained nothing from that whole ordeal, am i supposed to believe that someone as smart as the mc would rely on a psychopath who taxidermies living things over the ML who isn’t great but still obviously better than his cousin? just feels like misery porn for the sake of it