we are all broken
He does mirror Tobi, almost subconsciously at this point, and his shoulders sag a little when she's at his side. Closing his eyes on the exhale, Finn nods and feels a small smile curl at the corners of his lips. "It isn't the skyboat that worries me," he assures her, though as his eyes blink back open, he realises that - once he's past the Falling bit - it really ought to worry him.
If a skyboat did crash, for instance, depending on where it landed would determine Finn's likelihood for certain death. Granted, there was also the route to think about, and if the last crash was twenty years before, the accident report ought to show all of the relevant details, namely what might have caused the crash to begin with--
Whether intended or otherwise, Tobi's triggering of a different sort of obsessive anxiety has meant that Finn's ten steps onto the skyboat happen with relative calm, and before he knows it, they are both on deck. "I think I will need to go to the Archive," he tells her seriously, before seeming to blink back to himself. "Oh. We're here."
If a skyboat did crash, for instance, depending on where it landed would determine Finn's likelihood for certain death. Granted, there was also the route to think about, and if the last crash was twenty years before, the accident report ought to show all of the relevant details, namely what might have caused the crash to begin with--
Whether intended or otherwise, Tobi's triggering of a different sort of obsessive anxiety has meant that Finn's ten steps onto the skyboat happen with relative calm, and before he knows it, they are both on deck. "I think I will need to go to the Archive," he tells her seriously, before seeming to blink back to himself. "Oh. We're here."
that’s how the light gets in
