That isn't the reaction Jayden's expecting, though it also isn't too difficult of a one to guess any number of likely reasons for. He feels a little bad for offering, and clearly bringing up some sort of bad memories, and is about to just entirely change the environment around them when suddenly Blake's talking again.
This time the subject is even more unexpected, but in a completely different way that almost gives Jayden whiplash, and it takes a moment to process. Is he completely misreading this situation, or is Blake giving him a friendship bracelet? A friendship bracelet made in the Horizon, which completely ruins Blake's attempt to explain the whole thing casually away as just having made an extra, considering it's just as easy to desummon something as it is to summon it?
It seems so. But that just makes the gesture even more touching, in a way.
"Nice choice a' colors." He says it casually, an attempt to keep Blake--and himself, really--from feeling too awkward about the whole thing, reaching out to take the offered bracelet with a small but genuine smile. "And thanks. I could use as much luck as I can get."
Which is probably an understatement. He wraps the bracelet around his left wrist--in the Horizon, the new scar from the ordeal a few months earlier doesn't exist, but he's still subconsciously thinking about covering it--and, as he's fiddling with how to get the knot tied, also wills the shooting range to disappear. In its place a small park springs up around them, grass and a small creek rolling out under the shade of a few large trees.
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This time the subject is even more unexpected, but in a completely different way that almost gives Jayden whiplash, and it takes a moment to process. Is he completely misreading this situation, or is Blake giving him a friendship bracelet? A friendship bracelet made in the Horizon, which completely ruins Blake's attempt to explain the whole thing casually away as just having made an extra, considering it's just as easy to desummon something as it is to summon it?
It seems so. But that just makes the gesture even more touching, in a way.
"Nice choice a' colors." He says it casually, an attempt to keep Blake--and himself, really--from feeling too awkward about the whole thing, reaching out to take the offered bracelet with a small but genuine smile. "And thanks. I could use as much luck as I can get."
Which is probably an understatement. He wraps the bracelet around his left wrist--in the Horizon, the new scar from the ordeal a few months earlier doesn't exist, but he's still subconsciously thinking about covering it--and, as he's fiddling with how to get the knot tied, also wills the shooting range to disappear. In its place a small park springs up around them, grass and a small creek rolling out under the shade of a few large trees.