[ He's got the feeling he hasn't had it nearly as bad as Nathan, but between people squinting at him and finding brotherly resemblance and old-timers guessing he was the asshole who won two Quarries and then pushed his baby brother into winning plenty more? It's been a hell of a return to "normal."
Just more reasons not to baby a city's worth of people who lived and died and profited in that world, same as them.
More important is what he catches from Nathan's fingertips, that sense of exhaustion at the whole world. He's taking it hard. Of course he's taking it hard. ]
They're gonna get over it. Might take some time, but-- [ We bring back a treasure like that, anyone would. If he notices the parallel, the awareness doesn't make it to his face. ] They were there, too. We all did what we had to.
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[ He's got the feeling he hasn't had it nearly as bad as Nathan, but between people squinting at him and finding brotherly resemblance and old-timers guessing he was the asshole who won two Quarries and then pushed his baby brother into winning plenty more? It's been a hell of a return to "normal."
Just more reasons not to baby a city's worth of people who lived and died and profited in that world, same as them.
More important is what he catches from Nathan's fingertips, that sense of exhaustion at the whole world. He's taking it hard. Of course he's taking it hard. ]
They're gonna get over it. Might take some time, but-- [ We bring back a treasure like that, anyone would. If he notices the parallel, the awareness doesn't make it to his face. ] They were there, too. We all did what we had to.