[ not very successfully, I suppose, says Thancred.
and Reno—he's a fool but he's not an idiot. he can read between those lines as clear as day, the implications of such a simple sentence: that they hadn't come out entirely unscathed after all. maybe it had been Thancred, even. he thinks about the casual, almost offhand way Thancred had mentioned dying twice. he thinks that Thancred would probably do it a third time if he were asked, if he thought it necessary.
the horror of it sinks its claws into Reno. he lifts a hand and covers his eyes and says, ] Hey.
[ he says, ] What are you doing right now?
[ he says, ] Come over?
[ this the opposite of destruction, Reno thinks, but he really doesn't have it in him to do anything else. ]
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and Reno—he's a fool but he's not an idiot. he can read between those lines as clear as day, the implications of such a simple sentence: that they hadn't come out entirely unscathed after all. maybe it had been Thancred, even. he thinks about the casual, almost offhand way Thancred had mentioned dying twice. he thinks that Thancred would probably do it a third time if he were asked, if he thought it necessary.
the horror of it sinks its claws into Reno. he lifts a hand and covers his eyes and says, ] Hey.
[ he says, ] What are you doing right now?
[ he says, ] Come over?
[ this the opposite of destruction, Reno thinks, but he really doesn't have it in him to do anything else. ]