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laurence nimith ([personal profile] outdistanced) wrote2025-02-10 06:43 pm
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[personal profile] gutterbound 2025-02-17 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
That it is. Cold comfort for JQ, but...he made it out in one piece.

[Relatively speaking. Richie has a proper beer with him, sorry he needs something stronger than a ginger ale. He cracks the top open and there's that delicious hiss, serenading him as he takes his spot next to the kid.]

Are you feeling all right? I know it's been all the worst case scenarios, from start to finish.
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[personal profile] gutterbound 2025-02-17 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Same here.

[And ah. That's to be expected. Richie frowns, eyes flicking over the kid's posture and shaking head.]

Me neither. Not outside of a movie theater.

...People here are coming from all kinds of places. They're going to be capable of different things, have lived different lives. [He pauses, sighing.] I know I'm stating the obvious, but it does bear repeating. And it doesn't mean you have to assume the worst of all of them.

Jing Yuan wasn't right in the head. Most everyone else is, here.