we are all broken
Finn doesn't look at Tobi - he watches her long fingers move across the mbira, and the relative silence in the wake of the previously springy music is almost deafening in its stillness. "Oh?" He perks up somewhat to hear that her father shares his profession, though he also understand the difficulty in focusing on something like Outlanders and their lore and contributions. (Stormbreak's opinion, generally, being that there wasn't any). More difficult still is the snippet into the window of the elder Hart's grief. Finn taps out an absent rhythm on his guitar.
"People cope in different ways," he says simply; both he, Tobi and her father are evidence of that. "Perhaps he would benefit from an appointment with Falke," he suggests, as is his logical way. It's all he's got, to navigate these difficult waters, and whilst he smiles at the reminder that he can find his own mother in the colour of his eyes, it isn't as comforting, knowing how she ended.
The nudge to his shoulder and the return to joviality is enough to give anyone whiplash, but Finn grasps onto the riddle like a lifeline. "There are a lot of differences between a piano and a fish," he tells her, his tone growing wry and just a little amused. He's circling his original answer again, naturally. "...Pianos cannot swim, for instance."
"People cope in different ways," he says simply; both he, Tobi and her father are evidence of that. "Perhaps he would benefit from an appointment with Falke," he suggests, as is his logical way. It's all he's got, to navigate these difficult waters, and whilst he smiles at the reminder that he can find his own mother in the colour of his eyes, it isn't as comforting, knowing how she ended.
The nudge to his shoulder and the return to joviality is enough to give anyone whiplash, but Finn grasps onto the riddle like a lifeline. "There are a lot of differences between a piano and a fish," he tells her, his tone growing wry and just a little amused. He's circling his original answer again, naturally. "...Pianos cannot swim, for instance."
that’s how the light gets in
