[Being told not to get bent out of shape, unsurprisingly enough, has the opposite effect- but then again, she's got him so pegged that he can't really say anything to that if he wanted to.]
[...How does she know about the 8 pm snacc....]
[He is listening, despite his petulance. Whatever other personality "quirks" this nature guardian might have, she's lived for eons, right? ...So it isn't like she's speaking out of a lack of experience or observation, even if maybe things of this nature (hah) didn't usually concern her.]
Shockingly scientific appraisal, coming from you. [He tries to be acidic about it, as pointless as it likely is. Underneath that all, though, what she's saying isn't.... wrong. And it's not even necessarily that he doesn't know- but knowing logically what causes the hurt, and actually coming to terms with living with it, was what he'd spent half his life struggling with.]
Do we really know that? That we're gonna get out of here. That we're gonna go home. [It was the most obvious assumption, maybe, but... He wasn't sure there was any way to be certain.]
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[...How does she know about the 8 pm snacc....]
[He is listening, despite his petulance. Whatever other personality "quirks" this nature guardian might have, she's lived for eons, right? ...So it isn't like she's speaking out of a lack of experience or observation, even if maybe things of this nature (hah) didn't usually concern her.]
Shockingly scientific appraisal, coming from you. [He tries to be acidic about it, as pointless as it likely is. Underneath that all, though, what she's saying isn't.... wrong. And it's not even necessarily that he doesn't know- but knowing logically what causes the hurt, and actually coming to terms with living with it, was what he'd spent half his life struggling with.]
Do we really know that? That we're gonna get out of here. That we're gonna go home. [It was the most obvious assumption, maybe, but... He wasn't sure there was any way to be certain.]