( She never received the details of the undead portion, either. Forgive her the optimism in light of that. He only told her he was here and he was from before Overwatch fell.
Besides, it isn't as though they're returning home. Earth is gone. All iterations of it, she supposes. There is nothing she can return to and affect with the knowledge either way. He ignores a portion of what she'd mentioned, not deigning to answer it, and she supposes that's answer enough even if he hadn't used his words. )
That was half of it. But there were deaths, too. He wouldn't have gone so far. Not the way they had been killed.
( Withered husks, and all that. He had ignored her reassurance as well, which only has her tone dropping off, closing off. Shifting toward business rather than the friendliness of before, if that's what he prefers.
It certainly isn't what she'd prefer, which he well knows. )
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( She never received the details of the undead portion, either. Forgive her the optimism in light of that. He only told her he was here and he was from before Overwatch fell.
Besides, it isn't as though they're returning home. Earth is gone. All iterations of it, she supposes. There is nothing she can return to and affect with the knowledge either way. He ignores a portion of what she'd mentioned, not deigning to answer it, and she supposes that's answer enough even if he hadn't used his words. )
That was half of it. But there were deaths, too. He wouldn't have gone so far. Not the way they had been killed.
( Withered husks, and all that. He had ignored her reassurance as well, which only has her tone dropping off, closing off. Shifting toward business rather than the friendliness of before, if that's what he prefers.
It certainly isn't what she'd prefer, which he well knows. )