She certainly had her pick of the options. Yet she chose us.
[ He thinks it says something. Perhaps that Aurora didn't actually want them to succeed.
It's something he thinks about often. Winds around it, turns it this way and that in his head. It would answer many questions he had. Why him. Why Jinx. Why Vander, or Sevika, or the topsiders?
He hates it. He hates being here. With every distraction, every person, everything that wasn't Jinx, that was trying to pull her away from him just as assuredly as everything else. He was dead. He liked being alive, but the price was still due. He still had to live in this place to survive.
Perhaps death hadn't been the worst fate. ]
Alright, alright. Here.
[ He hands it over, letting her drag him along. He'd lost weight, muscle mass (was there any left to lose?) in the past weeks. He even looks tired.
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[ He thinks it says something. Perhaps that Aurora didn't actually want them to succeed.
It's something he thinks about often. Winds around it, turns it this way and that in his head. It would answer many questions he had. Why him. Why Jinx. Why Vander, or Sevika, or the topsiders?
He hates it. He hates being here. With every distraction, every person, everything that wasn't Jinx, that was trying to pull her away from him just as assuredly as everything else. He was dead. He liked being alive, but the price was still due. He still had to live in this place to survive.
Perhaps death hadn't been the worst fate. ]
Alright, alright. Here.
[ He hands it over, letting her drag him along. He'd lost weight, muscle mass (was there any left to lose?) in the past weeks. He even looks tired.
It's difficult, without something driving him. ]