It's so fast that it could have been easily missed, were it anyone but Claude sitting beside him, but he knows there's no chance of that. He's not even entirely certain what caused it - the tone, the flaw in his mask. Maybe all of it, combined with just being down here and how it keeps bringing up the worst of his memories. The ones he's spent years trying to bury. When he's not drowning himself in the guilt of them, anyway. He's self-aware enough to know neither coping method is particularly healthy, but that hadn't really factored into any of it anyway.
Shame flushes hot on its heels, embarrassed at the reaction, and he jerks his face away from the brush of Claude's fingers, scrambling to his feet. Putting distance between them - literally and figuratively. A trembling hand is clenched into a fist, and then quickly tucked behind his back, out of sight. ]
Claude, we were kidnapped by robed lunatics in creepy masks who we could barely hit and now we're stuck underground with people-eating plants or something, with no weapons, no supplies, and no one knows where we are. I think we can safely say there's a lot of "something's the matter".
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It's so fast that it could have been easily missed, were it anyone but Claude sitting beside him, but he knows there's no chance of that. He's not even entirely certain what caused it - the tone, the flaw in his mask. Maybe all of it, combined with just being down here and how it keeps bringing up the worst of his memories. The ones he's spent years trying to bury. When he's not drowning himself in the guilt of them, anyway. He's self-aware enough to know neither coping method is particularly healthy, but that hadn't really factored into any of it anyway.
Shame flushes hot on its heels, embarrassed at the reaction, and he jerks his face away from the brush of Claude's fingers, scrambling to his feet. Putting distance between them - literally and figuratively. A trembling hand is clenched into a fist, and then quickly tucked behind his back, out of sight. ]
Claude, we were kidnapped by robed lunatics in creepy masks who we could barely hit and now we're stuck underground with people-eating plants or something, with no weapons, no supplies, and no one knows where we are. I think we can safely say there's a lot of "something's the matter".