[He made a soft 'hmm' as he always did for parts of conversation, and he instead offering a light squeeze her shoulder again. He dropped his hand away as she repositioned herself on the couch in front of him.
He wasn't expecting grand gestures or statues of himself. That's never why he had a strangle hold on Zaun to drag it into independence. The fact that Jinx had made any gesture at all was reward enough, right up there with ending up in a place post-death where she was.]
The air is too clean. [He had been in clean air but even that paled in comparison to this. It hurt his nose.] I expect that for however nice it is there will be continual threats to safety. We must still be cautious with our freedom so that it won't be stolen from us.
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He wasn't expecting grand gestures or statues of himself. That's never why he had a strangle hold on Zaun to drag it into independence. The fact that Jinx had made any gesture at all was reward enough, right up there with ending up in a place post-death where she was.]
The air is too clean. [He had been in clean air but even that paled in comparison to this. It hurt his nose.] I expect that for however nice it is there will be continual threats to safety. We must still be cautious with our freedom so that it won't be stolen from us.