[ His eyes travel along Tony's profile, studying the smaller, subtler pieces of his expression to read what he's actually being told. Tony's spotted the way his posture's off, he surmises. Knows he's injured. Knows just as well as he does he'll wind up back in that pit.
Knows there's gonna be something in future drops that might keep him alive.
It ain't the first time he's done this.
He's tired, he's gotten gradually more blunt with age, and as they walk he levels Tony with an unfaltering, earnest look — reserved, still, because he always is. But. A level of earnest all the same. ]
I'm pretty sure you're the only thing keeping me alive in those damn things anymore.
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Knows there's gonna be something in future drops that might keep him alive.
It ain't the first time he's done this.
He's tired, he's gotten gradually more blunt with age, and as they walk he levels Tony with an unfaltering, earnest look — reserved, still, because he always is. But. A level of earnest all the same. ]
I'm pretty sure you're the only thing keeping me alive in those damn things anymore.
[ Just so you know. With tips like these.
So, thank you. ]