Oh no, I get that. It's-- do you think they'll think the same of us? That they should try not to kill us, just because they can? You saw what they did.
[Quentin doesn't want to elaborate on that, the sheer amount of bloodshed only a week ago and the exhaustion that still seems to linger on the faces of the people to stayed awake.
It's not even that obvious, probably. But it's the way someone will glance quickly at the door in the middle of making conversation, or how some sentences just peter off in to nothing, because there's nothing to say or it touches too close to something raw and painful.
He shrugs.]
You're a nice person.
[Like that ever explained anything, but maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise. Not after the things Riku let slip in the quiet between their conversations. About his loss. About his regrets. How Riku has enough reason out of everyone to hate the spirits and he still tries to not give in to the hate. To the darkness.]
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[Quentin doesn't want to elaborate on that, the sheer amount of bloodshed only a week ago and the exhaustion that still seems to linger on the faces of the people to stayed awake.
It's not even that obvious, probably. But it's the way someone will glance quickly at the door in the middle of making conversation, or how some sentences just peter off in to nothing, because there's nothing to say or it touches too close to something raw and painful.
He shrugs.]
You're a nice person.
[Like that ever explained anything, but maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise. Not after the things Riku let slip in the quiet between their conversations. About his loss. About his regrets. How Riku has enough reason out of everyone to hate the spirits and he still tries to not give in to the hate. To the darkness.]