blackfire: (101oeu)
𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 ([personal profile] blackfire) wrote in [community profile] ximilialog 2022-06-04 04:31 pm (UTC)

he puts the ice cream away, and then fixes up his own series of dishes, choosing to sit... not beside, but only one seat down from newt.

he has gotten good at contextual inferences, but 'crawls for the sun' eludes him. he pictures a mechanical city, moving apace of the day, but he is certain that gwen would have told him as much.

he's too literal for this, send help. still, rather than ask, he focuses instead on what it is newton says afterwards. he is silent for a time, lifting the bowl of miso up for a drink, and once he has set it back down again —


What you did, for your people. It was foolish. he shakes his head faintly. But it was also very brave. I understand why it felt like your only option, when the alternative was annihilation. And it is not your fault you did not know how it would turn out.

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