The vacancy in Mace's expression flickers, not with fear but with something close enough to it where Mace is concerned. It's doubt, and it's directed toward himself, because ... Ian's arm hadn't gone blue, and Mace had been the only one to catch snatches of fucking orgel music in an underground cave system. The grip around his elbow tightens, doesn't know if it's out of reassurance or just a reflex.
He debates not telling Ian.
For exactly half a second. He's done with not telling Ian shit like this, fuck. ]
It was music. Like strings, or something. I don't know if I'm fuckin' hearing things, or if something here's getting to me.
[ He thinks back to what he hadn't said outside the cave, what he hadn't said at the front of the tunnel a while ago, and it's a stupid goddamn habit to be getting into. Full disclosure is how he's always kept things, why the fuck is he stopping now? ]
Ian, there's a chance that I become a liability instead of an asset. Not saying it's happening now, or that there's a guarantee of it at all, and maybe I'm just wired as shit. But I gotta at least acknowledge it.
[ It's not everything he'd been thinking of, and not exactly how he'd been thinking it, but it's the most pressing thing and it's out now, the stupid habit finally broken before it could get too bad. He looks away, nodding at Ian's crowbar. ]
We're good to keep going. But stay ready with that thing.
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The vacancy in Mace's expression flickers, not with fear but with something close enough to it where Mace is concerned. It's doubt, and it's directed toward himself, because ... Ian's arm hadn't gone blue, and Mace had been the only one to catch snatches of fucking orgel music in an underground cave system. The grip around his elbow tightens, doesn't know if it's out of reassurance or just a reflex.
He debates not telling Ian.
For exactly half a second. He's done with not telling Ian shit like this, fuck. ]
It was music. Like strings, or something. I don't know if I'm fuckin' hearing things, or if something here's getting to me.
[ He thinks back to what he hadn't said outside the cave, what he hadn't said at the front of the tunnel a while ago, and it's a stupid goddamn habit to be getting into. Full disclosure is how he's always kept things, why the fuck is he stopping now? ]
Ian, there's a chance that I become a liability instead of an asset. Not saying it's happening now, or that there's a guarantee of it at all, and maybe I'm just wired as shit. But I gotta at least acknowledge it.
[ It's not everything he'd been thinking of, and not exactly how he'd been thinking it, but it's the most pressing thing and it's out now, the stupid habit finally broken before it could get too bad. He looks away, nodding at Ian's crowbar. ]
We're good to keep going. But stay ready with that thing.