[ If he'd been a bit faster, York might be alive. If he'd been stronger and not let himself break, he could've stopped all of it from happening. He knows what it's like to have one of those damn things in his head, knew what it went through, everything it went through, and Maine had to live with that, suffered in silence while the rest of them just --
Wash tries not to do it too abruptly, but he pulls his arm away from him. It doesn't matter, because he's shaking again, not too violently but enough to be noticeable, burying his head against one hand, fingers curling a little through his hair. He's still here. Breathe. ]
-- I can't.
Carolina. [ Just trying to latch onto something else, right now. ] She's staying too, we've spoken about it.
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Wash tries not to do it too abruptly, but he pulls his arm away from him. It doesn't matter, because he's shaking again, not too violently but enough to be noticeable, burying his head against one hand, fingers curling a little through his hair. He's still here. Breathe. ]
-- I can't.
Carolina. [ Just trying to latch onto something else, right now. ] She's staying too, we've spoken about it.