[ Rhys looking up at him, eyes red-rimmed and glassy. Tim shifts his weight from foot to foot, uncomfortable. ]
That... didn't come out right. No, but, I mean, these days? Yeah... hah, nobody fears this face much anymore, think they'd just as soon tear it apart with their bare hands. Maybe it's not like that everywhere, I can think of a few places it might be better. Eh. I wouldn't know. I just bit it in the bowels of the hellhole casino I've been trapped in since Jack kicked the bucket.
[ A pang of real, acute despair slams into him at that, almost dizzying. Just for a second. How many times had he promised himself he wouldn't die in there?
When he thinks about it, though, it was pretty stupid of him to think it'd play out any other way. ]
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[ Rhys looking up at him, eyes red-rimmed and glassy. Tim shifts his weight from foot to foot, uncomfortable. ]
That... didn't come out right. No, but, I mean, these days? Yeah... hah, nobody fears this face much anymore, think they'd just as soon tear it apart with their bare hands. Maybe it's not like that everywhere, I can think of a few places it might be better. Eh. I wouldn't know. I just bit it in the bowels of the hellhole casino I've been trapped in since Jack kicked the bucket.
[ A pang of real, acute despair slams into him at that, almost dizzying. Just for a second. How many times had he promised himself he wouldn't die in there?
When he thinks about it, though, it was pretty stupid of him to think it'd play out any other way. ]