And so will everyone else. They'll do what they've always done. By the time the Dark Hour hits and the new morning comes, he'll start to realize how futile his expectations had been. It was safer to stay inside, to keep locked away, but all his requests were were a coward's invitation. They would never stay inside. If the world was going to go to hell, they'd fight until they got there, and it was wrong to expect any of them to stay when there were when other people out there fighting.
And all he'll be able to do is ask them to come back.]
I know, [he says, breathing in shakily, feeling the air rattle in his lungs, the same air that's letting his heart run at a dead sprint. And he does. He knows that, too. Just as he knows Aki would, and Miki would, just as the reverse was equally true. He knew how they were—or at least was beginning to. It won't change what might happen, but he knows that, because he's surrounded by well-meaning morons that made it damn hard to not care.] ...And you haven't.
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And so will everyone else. They'll do what they've always done. By the time the Dark Hour hits and the new morning comes, he'll start to realize how futile his expectations had been. It was safer to stay inside, to keep locked away, but all his requests were were a coward's invitation. They would never stay inside. If the world was going to go to hell, they'd fight until they got there, and it was wrong to expect any of them to stay when there were when other people out there fighting.
And all he'll be able to do is ask them to come back.]
I know, [he says, breathing in shakily, feeling the air rattle in his lungs, the same air that's letting his heart run at a dead sprint. And he does. He knows that, too. Just as he knows Aki would, and Miki would, just as the reverse was equally true. He knew how they were—or at least was beginning to. It won't change what might happen, but he knows that, because he's surrounded by well-meaning morons that made it damn hard to not care.] ...And you haven't.