"I mean, that couldn't have been helped. If it wasn't last week, it might've been the week before, or the week before that. And up until then, portals actually worked."
He was seriously tempted to deflect entirely and ask how the mission had gone, but even he knew that wasn't a 'right now' conversation.
He sighed.
"It's over now," he noted. "This whole... thing. No bad feelings about next week, no paranoid glances over my shoulder to see if anyone's listening before I speak. Summer's over and we saved the island. And I... I had a lot of time to think about this. Even a year or two ago, I would've walked away and not come back again once it became clear that the summer was only getting worse. But I didn't. I've been living on this island for longer than I've been anywhere, since..."
Since.
He sighed.
"... Did I mention Rey came back?"
It was a change of subject, but not really. Not if you knew where it was all coming from.
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"I mean, that couldn't have been helped. If it wasn't last week, it might've been the week before, or the week before that. And up until then, portals actually worked."
He was seriously tempted to deflect entirely and ask how the mission had gone, but even he knew that wasn't a 'right now' conversation.
He sighed.
"It's over now," he noted. "This whole... thing. No bad feelings about next week, no paranoid glances over my shoulder to see if anyone's listening before I speak. Summer's over and we saved the island. And I... I had a lot of time to think about this. Even a year or two ago, I would've walked away and not come back again once it became clear that the summer was only getting worse. But I didn't. I've been living on this island for longer than I've been anywhere, since..."
Since.
He sighed.
"... Did I mention Rey came back?"
It was a change of subject, but not really. Not if you knew where it was all coming from.