... he wasn't even aware he was using the past tense.]
Why... [Beginning slowly, then stopping himself.
A blink. Flickers of a great many small expressions he swallows past. Just like that everything he'd been holding onto so tightly is let go, just an expression that's smooth—and maybe a little haunted left.]
...What makes you say that? That he's gone. [Gone, not just that he's not here in Asgard. It's an obvious enough difference.]
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... he wasn't even aware he was using the past tense.]
Why... [Beginning slowly, then stopping himself.
A blink. Flickers of a great many small expressions he swallows past. Just like that everything he'd been holding onto so tightly is let go, just an expression that's smooth—and maybe a little haunted left.]
...What makes you say that? That he's gone. [Gone, not just that he's not here in Asgard. It's an obvious enough difference.]