[He should sound insane. And he isn't unused to that. Being looked at like he's delusional, foolish, suicidal and idealistic.
Hinata isn't looking at him that way. For once, it's not a matter of squaring up and baring his teeth and proving himself. And in the midst of days worth of frustration, failure, (trauma, injury, exhaustion,) it looses something in his chest a little, just the same as Hinata's long exhale. Something settled. Grim but resolute.
He knocks his head back against the hull of the medical rover. Works his jaw and closes his eyes for a second, breathing out the thick feeling of smoke in his lungs.]
Yeah.
[Confirmation, inane and distracted. Nearly non sequitor. He doesn't voice it, but after so long spent railing against the inevitable, beating himself up over things he had no power to change, there is something in his slowly decompressing posture that is appreciative of the solidarity. (The faith.) If he has to, he'll find a way.]
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Hinata isn't looking at him that way. For once, it's not a matter of squaring up and baring his teeth and proving himself. And in the midst of days worth of frustration, failure, (trauma, injury, exhaustion,) it looses something in his chest a little, just the same as Hinata's long exhale. Something settled. Grim but resolute.
He knocks his head back against the hull of the medical rover. Works his jaw and closes his eyes for a second, breathing out the thick feeling of smoke in his lungs.]
Yeah.
[Confirmation, inane and distracted. Nearly non sequitor. He doesn't voice it, but after so long spent railing against the inevitable, beating himself up over things he had no power to change, there is something in his slowly decompressing posture that is appreciative of the solidarity. (The faith.) If he has to, he'll find a way.]