Might be the most Vanya's said of his family at a stretch. He marks it, the way he'd pause for a hummingbird's buzz. Catching the motion only when it's passed him by.
(It gives him time to drink.)
Fingers curl about flask, bracing for the static curl back into his teeth. Complicated, yeah. The man who left Cumberland's gotta be awful different from the kid left home. Letters can't patch it all.
"Maybe 's that," It's close enough. Less complication, sure, "Some folks want complicated. Makes us look like we got our shit together more'n this."
His tongue's looser than it will be half an hour from now, and he hears it: Some folks want complicated. Some don't, and Vanya is complicated now, and his family doesn't want the man that's left. The blur of wings —
"All this," The Necropolis. The Fade. "A lot of it, all we got is trust. Could pick up a book, but couldn't tell you if it means nothing at all. Feels a bit like we're pulling the same trick."
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(It gives him time to drink.)
Fingers curl about flask, bracing for the static curl back into his teeth. Complicated, yeah. The man who left Cumberland's gotta be awful different from the kid left home. Letters can't patch it all.
"Maybe 's that," It's close enough. Less complication, sure, "Some folks want complicated. Makes us look like we got our shit together more'n this."
His tongue's looser than it will be half an hour from now, and he hears it: Some folks want complicated. Some don't, and Vanya is complicated now, and his family doesn't want the man that's left. The blur of wings —
"All this," The Necropolis. The Fade. "A lot of it, all we got is trust. Could pick up a book, but couldn't tell you if it means nothing at all. Feels a bit like we're pulling the same trick."