[ For a second, all Tim can do is sit there and gape like a fish, eyes shining and wide as Elpis itself. ]
That's. That's...
[ Whole thing went down. The words echo, ricocheting around the inside of his skull. Whole thing went down. Wreckage and fire, Jack's office reduced to girders and glass shards and Pandoran dust. ]
Thaaaat's FREAKING AWESOME!
[ Tim sort of pitches forward a ways toward Rhys, palms clapping sharply against the floor. ]
Hooooleee shit, I could friggin' kiss you right now—y'know, if that wasn't clearly the most inappropriate and disgusting thing that could ever happen to you, but OH MY GOD I hated that place, and all my paperwork and junk was in there, and if that's all gone in a pile of rubble, then I'm pretty sure I'm not technically a Hyperion employee anymore, so—
[ The words get cut short, choked by a well of unexpected emotion. He swallows, a thick sound, and rakes a hand through an already messy head of hair. By this point in his life, he's started to go gray—the same places Jack did. ]
Like, how even? God, I missed a hell of a lot while I was locked up in that hellhole.
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That's. That's...
[ Whole thing went down. The words echo, ricocheting around the inside of his skull. Whole thing went down. Wreckage and fire, Jack's office reduced to girders and glass shards and Pandoran dust. ]
Thaaaat's FREAKING AWESOME!
[ Tim sort of pitches forward a ways toward Rhys, palms clapping sharply against the floor. ]
Hooooleee shit, I could friggin' kiss you right now—y'know, if that wasn't clearly the most inappropriate and disgusting thing that could ever happen to you, but OH MY GOD I hated that place, and all my paperwork and junk was in there, and if that's all gone in a pile of rubble, then I'm pretty sure I'm not technically a Hyperion employee anymore, so—
[ The words get cut short, choked by a well of unexpected emotion. He swallows, a thick sound, and rakes a hand through an already messy head of hair. By this point in his life, he's started to go gray—the same places Jack did. ]
Like, how even? God, I missed a hell of a lot while I was locked up in that hellhole.