( Quietly, but maybe he was talking about something different. He could have stayed in Exsilium, but how much help me might have been able to do was questionable, on the day before the bomb was due to hit. He can't get his head around everything, it all feels fuzzy. )
I'm f-fine.
( It's not emotion that trips his words, because there's a flatness in it. He's fine. He will be fine. He just has to be Atlas, be better, and he's scrabbling to build some kind of wall that all the disasters can go behind.
All that has happened since he got here was failures. Elmer's world being lost, the contagion, the bombing where people got attacked with nerve gas that he should have been able to dismiss with his air magic, Max being infected, Max being taken, and now this. )
BABY DON'T HURT ME, DON'T HURT ME
( Quietly, but maybe he was talking about something different. He could have stayed in Exsilium, but how much help me might have been able to do was questionable, on the day before the bomb was due to hit. He can't get his head around everything, it all feels fuzzy. )
I'm f-fine.
( It's not emotion that trips his words, because there's a flatness in it. He's fine. He will be fine. He just has to be Atlas, be better, and he's scrabbling to build some kind of wall that all the disasters can go behind.
All that has happened since he got here was failures. Elmer's world being lost, the contagion, the bombing where people got attacked with nerve gas that he should have been able to dismiss with his air magic, Max being infected, Max being taken, and now this. )