"You don't need to apologize to me for that, or telling me anything else going on in your head," he says, firmly. "I don't care how dark it is." It's not harsh or mean, just a very definitive statement, carried by a specific kind of certainty.
"You're not gonna run into many people around me who haven't seen war of one sort or another, and most of those have at least occasionally been so exhausted and traumatized that a nice, meaningful, death got more appealing than anyone wants to admit to."
Including him. Dear God, including and probably mostly him.
He squints into the sun and across the desert, and can just see the sun off the black of the jet. "We're not in a position to turn down help. If we need it, I'll ask. Getting you somewhere that you're not repressing trauma with new trauma's still a priority though." He smiles, because there's dark humor in what he says: "You'll just have to live with it."
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Date: 2024-10-24 10:59 pm (UTC)"You're not gonna run into many people around me who haven't seen war of one sort or another, and most of those have at least occasionally been so exhausted and traumatized that a nice, meaningful, death got more appealing than anyone wants to admit to."
Including him. Dear God, including and probably mostly him.
He squints into the sun and across the desert, and can just see the sun off the black of the jet. "We're not in a position to turn down help. If we need it, I'll ask. Getting you somewhere that you're not repressing trauma with new trauma's still a priority though." He smiles, because there's dark humor in what he says: "You'll just have to live with it."