[ He glances over to her – a brief, thoughtful look as his jaw clenches.
He has an all too brief moment of clarity, when he realizes that if anyone gets what happened between him and Ego, if anyone would understand what a complete shitshow that was, it would be Mantis. She'd understand completely how Ego had manipulated him, how Ego had spun that web of words of all the things Peter's ever wanted to hear, how Ego had lured him in and slammed shut all the ways out before Peter even had an inkling that anything was amiss.
They had both lived it, he thinks. Maybe they came at it from two different directions, but...
But that's a thought for another time, when he can't still hear the distant, echoing wail of a child. He frees a blaster from his holster, tracing the walls to find a weak point. ]
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He has an all too brief moment of clarity, when he realizes that if anyone gets what happened between him and Ego, if anyone would understand what a complete shitshow that was, it would be Mantis. She'd understand completely how Ego had manipulated him, how Ego had spun that web of words of all the things Peter's ever wanted to hear, how Ego had lured him in and slammed shut all the ways out before Peter even had an inkling that anything was amiss.
They had both lived it, he thinks. Maybe they came at it from two different directions, but...
But that's a thought for another time, when he can't still hear the distant, echoing wail of a child. He frees a blaster from his holster, tracing the walls to find a weak point. ]
Maybe we can just blast through.