[He can tell that one of the thorns is out, and although there are still more to go, there's some sense of relief at one of them being out. It's progress, which is what he tries to focus on, rather than how messed up his arm is going to be and how likely he is to get some sort of horrible infection. Those are problems for future Jayden, who present Jayden hardly ever worries about, even hardly ever did even before ending up in a literal hell pit.
He opens his eyes slowly to see Blake seems to have a nosebleed, something which is just so incredibly normal that it's barely notable. What would usually be cause for concern is just simply to be expected now, and even worse, is so low on the scale of things they need to be worrying about.
Jayden takes the bone shard when offered, and fortunately it distract him from offering a premature congratulations for the promotion to detective. But then Blake follows that up with having quit, and although Jayden does briefly have the thought that it might be rude to ask, that seems like such a minor thing to be worried about and Blake probably wouldn't have mentioned it if he weren't willing to talk about it.]
Why'd you do that?
[It isn't accusatory, just curious, or at least as much as he can spare the energy to put inflection in his tone.]
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He opens his eyes slowly to see Blake seems to have a nosebleed, something which is just so incredibly normal that it's barely notable. What would usually be cause for concern is just simply to be expected now, and even worse, is so low on the scale of things they need to be worrying about.
Jayden takes the bone shard when offered, and fortunately it distract him from offering a premature congratulations for the promotion to detective. But then Blake follows that up with having quit, and although Jayden does briefly have the thought that it might be rude to ask, that seems like such a minor thing to be worried about and Blake probably wouldn't have mentioned it if he weren't willing to talk about it.]
Why'd you do that?
[It isn't accusatory, just curious, or at least as much as he can spare the energy to put inflection in his tone.]