He chews, swallows, makes a face. “Of course I do.” That moment with Darcy sits like a star in his memory, something to revolve the rest of his world around. “That doesn’t stop the rest of everything happening.”
But. Anyway.
“Well. There’s still the whole. Widower thing. Then I’m pretty sure basically all of my closest loved ones despise someone else who is a friend of mine, like, one of them shot them and another murdered them on an excursion. Another two of them hate each other. Which is, I mean, pretty normal if occasionally frustrating, but it’s so much more of a migraine in close quarters like this.”
He does some kind of waving-off gesture and sighs. “Then my eye is permanent? For some reason? And I kind of messed up talking to one of my kids a few months ago and I’m still thinking about it. And then Jade's gone, and then those flowers, and there are these evil doors that seriously set me off, and then Demona…”
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Date: 2023-10-12 03:33 pm (UTC)But. Anyway.
“Well. There’s still the whole. Widower thing. Then I’m pretty sure basically all of my closest loved ones despise someone else who is a friend of mine, like, one of them shot them and another murdered them on an excursion. Another two of them hate each other. Which is, I mean, pretty normal if occasionally frustrating, but it’s so much more of a migraine in close quarters like this.”
He does some kind of waving-off gesture and sighs. “Then my eye is permanent? For some reason? And I kind of messed up talking to one of my kids a few months ago and I’m still thinking about it. And then Jade's gone, and then those flowers, and there are these evil doors that seriously set me off, and then Demona…”