[ Nate snaps with an indefensible bitterness, a sharpness, that he almost never employs with those about whom he cares. But two decades of holding onto a lingering resentment about his own autonomy are starting to show the strain. ]
You and Kyna and Wade are all in the same shitty scenario together, along with a handful of other people I've been tasked with training, and there's nothing I like better than the job security, you know? That solid guarantee that people may die, but at least I get a paycheck.
[ Just as quickly he corrals himself, twenty years of schooling his attitude sliding in with a vengeance and the tension bleeds from him. Nate knows the only way it could be worse is if he were in there with them. ]
...I'm sorry. I'm tired, and-
[ He hesitates, thumbing a dog-eared page of his sketchbook. ]
no subject
[ Nate snaps with an indefensible bitterness, a sharpness, that he almost never employs with those about whom he cares. But two decades of holding onto a lingering resentment about his own autonomy are starting to show the strain. ]
You and Kyna and Wade are all in the same shitty scenario together, along with a handful of other people I've been tasked with training, and there's nothing I like better than the job security, you know? That solid guarantee that people may die, but at least I get a paycheck.
[ Just as quickly he corrals himself, twenty years of schooling his attitude sliding in with a vengeance and the tension bleeds from him. Nate knows the only way it could be worse is if he were in there with them. ]
...I'm sorry. I'm tired, and-
[ He hesitates, thumbing a dog-eared page of his sketchbook. ]
I'm tired.