[Opening up to someone is hard. Not all admissions are made equal, cautious steps into trust and knowledge. Nate started like everyone does, with some jokes and some shit and some things that never mattered at all. But somewhere along the way, he got access to a lot and still didn't turn away. A tattered childhood with just a brother's hand. A prison yard and scrappy fights and bloody knuckles. Screaming and exploration and the willingness to push just a little further because death is at his heels but not there yet, not there yet, not there yet.
They're alike in a lot of ways, ones Taako doesn't know how to admit at the front of his mind so they become feelings instead, just an appeal to something that fits together in the right way.]
Don't know how you have time to care that much about that many people, my man.
[Keep it tight, keep it close, shove out everyone else. Even then, his vetting system isn't perfect if Lucretia got in, if anyone can rob him of anything. Taako reaches up, pushing some hair back in an idle and unimportant motion.]
It's just... figures, right? That some horrible shit went down, like, what else is new. And here we are.
[He picks a bit at the skin of his hands, looking at the edges.]
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They're alike in a lot of ways, ones Taako doesn't know how to admit at the front of his mind so they become feelings instead, just an appeal to something that fits together in the right way.]
Don't know how you have time to care that much about that many people, my man.
[Keep it tight, keep it close, shove out everyone else. Even then, his vetting system isn't perfect if Lucretia got in, if anyone can rob him of anything. Taako reaches up, pushing some hair back in an idle and unimportant motion.]
It's just... figures, right? That some horrible shit went down, like, what else is new. And here we are.
[He picks a bit at the skin of his hands, looking at the edges.]
Standing in the bones.