- NATE -
I can't see much of the future
Unless we find out what's to blame, what a shame
Unless we find out what's to blame, what a shame
With the way both of their faces turn back to the task at hand, it's clear there's more than a little awkwardness with the subject at hand, lost years and future worries both hanging heavy in the air between them. At least it makes the work go by a touch faster.
The segue is appreciated, gives him a touch of breathing room, reason to forget the idea of children almost entirely for the moment. "Before Longnight, I tried to be available most of the day." There's a guilty grimace, a light shrug of his shoulder. "My schedule has kind of... slipped, since then though. Dealing with everything that happened through Longnight." The last few weeks felt like one big crapshoot, dealing with his own injury first, and when it finally seemed he'd get a moment to breathe, Sunjata had gone and gotten hurt again.
God, they really were magnets for trouble, weren't they?
"Any help you want to give would be wonderful. What kind of skills have you trained in?" It's not meant to be rude, just pure curiosity, Nate trying to gauge what kind of skills Vai brought with her.
The segue is appreciated, gives him a touch of breathing room, reason to forget the idea of children almost entirely for the moment. "Before Longnight, I tried to be available most of the day." There's a guilty grimace, a light shrug of his shoulder. "My schedule has kind of... slipped, since then though. Dealing with everything that happened through Longnight." The last few weeks felt like one big crapshoot, dealing with his own injury first, and when it finally seemed he'd get a moment to breathe, Sunjata had gone and gotten hurt again.
God, they really were magnets for trouble, weren't they?
"Any help you want to give would be wonderful. What kind of skills have you trained in?" It's not meant to be rude, just pure curiosity, Nate trying to gauge what kind of skills Vai brought with her.
And we won't be together much longer
Unless we realize that we are the same
Unless we realize that we are the same
