They're going to be afraid now they they all know.
[ the squeeze is met with no resistance. percy just. keeps breathing. slowly. it hitches but once or twice as he looks him in the eye, sees the anger that, but his own are. distant. ]
I wouldn't blame them.
[ a breath, a swallow. ]
But it throws off the balance. What do we even do? When someone escapes us... do we wait for another situation like that to arise?
[ fiercely: ] They're going to be afraid something's going to happen to you like it happened to Malik.
[ not afraid of you. he's not letting percy spiral down that road.
for now he just stares at him, awkward, intense, angry, and trying to deal with four hundred different emotions at once. think, think, vax'ildan. think. ]
...'s the thing, I think. You didn't escape - we caught you. You just didn't die.
I think... [ frowns. ] I hope, that maybe whatever the fuck happened to him was a kind of balance. Kazunari was fucked up up until we found out on Friday, right? Maybe you just... maybe just have to make it. To then.
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They're going to be afraid now they they all know.
[ the squeeze is met with no resistance. percy just. keeps breathing. slowly. it hitches but once or twice as he looks him in the eye, sees the anger that, but his own are. distant. ]
I wouldn't blame them.
[ a breath, a swallow. ]
But it throws off the balance. What do we even do? When someone escapes us... do we wait for another situation like that to arise?
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[ not afraid of you. he's not letting percy spiral down that road.
for now he just stares at him, awkward, intense, angry, and trying to deal with four hundred different emotions at once. think, think, vax'ildan. think. ]
...'s the thing, I think. You didn't escape - we caught you. You just didn't die.
I think... [ frowns. ] I hope, that maybe whatever the fuck happened to him was a kind of balance. Kazunari was fucked up up until we found out on Friday, right? Maybe you just... maybe just have to make it. To then.