( she pays no heed to michael's efforts at hilarity (it was a good one), mostly because her anxiety and the tension she feels pulling her muscles taut makes it impossible for her to reciprocate humor. she does, however, pass over the blanket for him to make more squares of them.
delegatingβrather, distributing the work between them makes her feel slightly better, to condemn away whatever is troubling her to take a back seat for the time being. )
I want to think they want us to be kept safe. ( but, in truth, ) I don't actually know which option is better, though.
( to be up there or to be down here. )
We were thrown around a lot into places like this when Sokovia was at war. Basements, mostly. Every second felt like a minute, and every minute like an hour.
( wanda has no insightful perspective on the matter, because she cannot view this in any way objectively. the trauma of war as a child pervades, still, at her adult age; this much explains the light tremor of her hands as she uses her magic to bind and create, the tension in her jaw, and the cold panic that clutches at her heart. )
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delegatingβrather, distributing the work between them makes her feel slightly better, to condemn away whatever is troubling her to take a back seat for the time being. )
I want to think they want us to be kept safe. ( but, in truth, ) I don't actually know which option is better, though.
( to be up there or to be down here. )
We were thrown around a lot into places like this when Sokovia was at war. Basements, mostly. Every second felt like a minute, and every minute like an hour.
( wanda has no insightful perspective on the matter, because she cannot view this in any way objectively. the trauma of war as a child pervades, still, at her adult age; this much explains the light tremor of her hands as she uses her magic to bind and create, the tension in her jaw, and the cold panic that clutches at her heart. )