[He has to say it, has to charge ahead and dismiss everything with a lateral sweep, with a sharp-edged comment, because if he doesn't, if he doesn't, then he'll have to acknowledge what's being said and that feels significantly more fucking terrifying.]
Y'know. Better me than someone else.
[Not that it mattered.]
[Not that it fucking mattered, when Clem died on the field too. When Shepard, when Max, when everyone else died in equally grotesque ways - often more so.]
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[He has to say it, has to charge ahead and dismiss everything with a lateral sweep, with a sharp-edged comment, because if he doesn't, if he doesn't, then he'll have to acknowledge what's being said and that feels significantly more fucking terrifying.]
Y'know. Better me than someone else.
[Not that it mattered.]
[Not that it fucking mattered, when Clem died on the field too. When Shepard, when Max, when everyone else died in equally grotesque ways - often more so.]