"Nothing's difficult," Alastair insisted, "it's just..."

He sighed hard. Then again...

"I can't do anything about the way you feel, or the way I don't. It just is what it is. As long as you understand that - that I'm not gonna change, it's not ever gonna happen." He caught himself before referencing anything Hiruma had said - after all, he didn't want to so blatantly admit to hacking Bakura's filters and reading his posts.