[ She's right about that, and if asked he'd probably have no trouble admitting it. But dealing well with this kind of shit? He's not sure he'd consider that a strength, anyway.
When she touches his arm, he shrugs her off, holding up a hand as he slows in his steady, determined plod toward the lights in the distance - more now, even, the town they landed in slowly cresting the dark horizon. ]
No. I do not want to talk about it. [ There's a twinge of incredulous, humorless amusement there, exasperated but held back. He's not ungrateful, but that is pushing it. ]
We survived, and that thing hasn't come back yet. That's good enough for me. [ At least for now. That burst of adrenaline was almost a gift, distracting him from everything else weighing on him. But that's fleeting, too. ]
You got any idea how to get out of the rest of this, I'm all ears. Otherwise, I think we leave it there.
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When she touches his arm, he shrugs her off, holding up a hand as he slows in his steady, determined plod toward the lights in the distance - more now, even, the town they landed in slowly cresting the dark horizon. ]
No. I do not want to talk about it. [ There's a twinge of incredulous, humorless amusement there, exasperated but held back. He's not ungrateful, but that is pushing it. ]
We survived, and that thing hasn't come back yet. That's good enough for me. [ At least for now. That burst of adrenaline was almost a gift, distracting him from everything else weighing on him. But that's fleeting, too. ]
You got any idea how to get out of the rest of this, I'm all ears. Otherwise, I think we leave it there.