forensicks

"Oh, I didn't mean to say that," Walter rushes to smooth over, that he didn't immediately say who was that guy in the dream, your boyfriend? It's still obvious enough when he has implicitly compared Pyotr's love for Stavrogin to his own love for Misty... Meaning Walter can't hold it against Pyotr that he would use anyone but Stavrogin. "Though it was kind of odd the way that other woman was portrayed in the dream, I'll admit." The contrast between Pyotr's two companions was the main thing that made Walter start looking through the lens that his friend might be gay, truly in that If You Were Gay way. "But I see what you mean." He would be rude to insist otherwise considering how they got onto this topic - rather than the weird assumption that Walter and Pyotr were a couple, Pyotr should be with his "roommates"... but not a pressure to actually be gay with his roommate(s). The truth is that "affection" sounds like more action than what Walter saw in the dream, but that's not... his business.

Walter frowns again. It's actually revealing that Pyotr even admits they were close at one point, intriguing enough that he decides to go pretty far validating. "Of course it's different. You're not wishing he was here to try all out all the stuff that's magic or from the future or anything, I take it." That's eerie even in the straight relationships with people who knew each other before, Walter thinks, wardens idly wondering when they'll meet again.