[ And as reluctant as he is to tear himself away from all of this, the comfort that he feels from even just getting to touch and be touched — it's a simple thing and one that most people probably don't even think about, but something he'd gone without for so long throughout most of his life and now doesn't take for granted any time he gets to have it — he's still sitting up to mull over everything Poe's saying to him right now, drawing his knees up toward himself and resting his forearms on them. ]
Part of me knows that what everything you're saying has got to be true, but then — he was me. I felt it from him, on the other side, when I knew what I had to do in order to get out. He's... if I made one decision, or even a handful of decisions, any differently than I did. I could've been him.
[ And that's what unnerves him most of all, the fact that the scales could have tipped in the opposite direction at any time and he could have become the person who never escaped from all of that. It's an unsettling thought to have, especially when he realizes that this doppelganger, this other version of himself, encountered Poe to some degree. With a jerk, he turns to face the other man. ]
Did he hurt you? He didn't — if anything happened to you and I wasn't here to stop it — [ The apology is already in his expression, even if he's not saying it out loud just yet. ]
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[ And as reluctant as he is to tear himself away from all of this, the comfort that he feels from even just getting to touch and be touched — it's a simple thing and one that most people probably don't even think about, but something he'd gone without for so long throughout most of his life and now doesn't take for granted any time he gets to have it — he's still sitting up to mull over everything Poe's saying to him right now, drawing his knees up toward himself and resting his forearms on them. ]
Part of me knows that what everything you're saying has got to be true, but then — he was me. I felt it from him, on the other side, when I knew what I had to do in order to get out. He's... if I made one decision, or even a handful of decisions, any differently than I did. I could've been him.
[ And that's what unnerves him most of all, the fact that the scales could have tipped in the opposite direction at any time and he could have become the person who never escaped from all of that. It's an unsettling thought to have, especially when he realizes that this doppelganger, this other version of himself, encountered Poe to some degree. With a jerk, he turns to face the other man. ]
Did he hurt you? He didn't — if anything happened to you and I wasn't here to stop it — [ The apology is already in his expression, even if he's not saying it out loud just yet. ]