[ There's a difference between trying to care about every single person, and just doing the best you can in a shitty situation. Nate doesn't know when he started empathizing outside of himself, stopped resorting to insularity in a bid to protect his own feelings. He spent years building walls and then kept vigil atop them and somebody always found a way to climb over.
After a while, it felt like it wasn't worth the effort to keep people out. ]
Most of the places I used to explore were like that long before I got there. They either tore each other apart or something else got to them first. Entire civilizations, just...gone. Just bones.
[ He never had the luxury of dwelling on it. Someone was always dogging his footsteps, taking the credit or the gold or a life. Nate knows how tenuous their situation is, balanced between powers none of them can really compete with, forced to choose sides or end up like this. Forced to choose sides and end up like this.
He worries his lip with his teeth, gaze tracking from Taako's fidgeting hands back to the tank, and he doesn't entirely believe it himself when he says: ]
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[ There's a difference between trying to care about every single person, and just doing the best you can in a shitty situation. Nate doesn't know when he started empathizing outside of himself, stopped resorting to insularity in a bid to protect his own feelings. He spent years building walls and then kept vigil atop them and somebody always found a way to climb over.
After a while, it felt like it wasn't worth the effort to keep people out. ]
Most of the places I used to explore were like that long before I got there. They either tore each other apart or something else got to them first. Entire civilizations, just...gone. Just bones.
[ He never had the luxury of dwelling on it. Someone was always dogging his footsteps, taking the credit or the gold or a life. Nate knows how tenuous their situation is, balanced between powers none of them can really compete with, forced to choose sides or end up like this. Forced to choose sides and end up like this.
He worries his lip with his teeth, gaze tracking from Taako's fidgeting hands back to the tank, and he doesn't entirely believe it himself when he says: ]
Better them than us.