[he was listening, even through all that, by now used to carrying on two conversations at once. Well... normally not conversations, but purposefully ignoring whatever his brain is telling him to do because it's usually wrong and awful and implanted there by Jacob. Having a full on conversation is new and will be kind of alarming when Pratt is rational enough to think about this without all the added stressors of the expedition.
One of those being the compulsion to act fine and normal even when he most assuredly is neither of those things.]
No. No it's okay.
[But is it? He looks away, setting his jaw as he thinks about that. Shut up Jacob.]
Okay it's not fine, especially with all this shit we just found. But no, I don't wanna talk about it.
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[he was listening, even through all that, by now used to carrying on two conversations at once. Well... normally not conversations, but purposefully ignoring whatever his brain is telling him to do because it's usually wrong and awful and implanted there by Jacob. Having a full on conversation is new and will be kind of alarming when Pratt is rational enough to think about this without all the added stressors of the expedition.
One of those being the compulsion to act fine and normal even when he most assuredly is neither of those things.]
No. No it's okay.
[But is it? He looks away, setting his jaw as he thinks about that. Shut up Jacob.]
Okay it's not fine, especially with all this shit we just found. But no, I don't wanna talk about it.