A Hotsuin often weaponizes information. He may have been waiting for the best possible moment. [And a significant pause, to choose his next excuse I mean words...] ...or, he did not want to admit to falling "prey" to me in the past.

[Alcor shifted, sucking his sides in to an extreme before 'exhaling' them back out to their normal positions.] I would like to believe you, Shining One- but I failed in tending to him, and left him to his fate. I could not expect him to see me as anything but a monster. [Sigh, literally.] He did not even know what I truly was for many years. He simply saw me as a demon.