And the question kind of blindsides him, has him blink rapidly a couple of times.]
I -- I...
[Why would she ask that, part of him absurdly wonders, before... it hits him that that's what someone would ask. Under ordinary circumstances.
Ordinary circumstances...]
You're -- the first person I've spoken to in... [A few days, since he escaped, but by God, strictly speaking, it's been centuries...] ...i-i-in quite -- some time...
[There's a little vibration in there before the trail-off - not out of sorrow or anything, but out of his being floored to so actively realize that.
And he still doesn't know that it actually is over, but...
Fff, he's going to give in. Let himself believe, unless given sign not to, that it is. Takes a steadying breath.]
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And the question kind of blindsides him, has him blink rapidly a couple of times.]
I -- I...
[Why would she ask that, part of him absurdly wonders, before... it hits him that that's what someone would ask. Under ordinary circumstances.
Ordinary circumstances...]
You're -- the first person I've spoken to in... [A few days, since he escaped, but by God, strictly speaking, it's been centuries...] ...i-i-in quite -- some time...
[There's a little vibration in there before the trail-off - not out of sorrow or anything, but out of his being floored to so actively realize that.
And he still doesn't know that it actually is over, but...
Fff, he's going to give in. Let himself believe, unless given sign not to, that it is. Takes a steadying breath.]
Uhmm...
[And finally, he completely lowers the sword.]
For what -- are you out here?