paperweights (слэш)

Mark has always been good with structures and binary logic, operating according to a defined set of conditions. He knows, better than anyone, the extraordinary havoc that a single flawed assumption can wreak on an entire system.
It took him so long to step back far enough, to realize that the problem was less with his actions in and of themselves than with his understanding of the very architecture of Mark and Eduardo—of who and what they were, then.
(Coda to pieces from my heart. )