He snorts wryly, shaking his head before taking another bite. "Sure know how to make a guy blush."
His being forthright isn't unappreciated; in a world full of masks and half-truths it can be hard to know who and what to believe and at this point he feels pretty safe thinking that what they have is a stable, mutually beneficial relationship. He's the last guy to want to rock the boat, unless he has to. It had been different with Carver. He couldn't sit idly and not challenge decisions that placed others at risk and outright hurt them.
Sometimes it feels like so long ago when they escaped the compound together and crept through the corpse-herd wide-eyed and smeared all over with sticky, liquefied guts, guns rattling all around them; sometimes, only yesterday. As the days blur together and summer edges closer, it seems all that remains of his family aren't the memories of their laughter and their voices and brighter days but all the what ifs and if onlys in the world.
It's a while before he picks up where they left off, sobering. "So, what's the plan? I mean, say we do end up runnin' into a settlement one a' these days, a place that's really got somethin' goin' for it... you ain't gon' give that a chance?"
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His being forthright isn't unappreciated; in a world full of masks and half-truths it can be hard to know who and what to believe and at this point he feels pretty safe thinking that what they have is a stable, mutually beneficial relationship. He's the last guy to want to rock the boat, unless he has to. It had been different with Carver. He couldn't sit idly and not challenge decisions that placed others at risk and outright hurt them.
Sometimes it feels like so long ago when they escaped the compound together and crept through the corpse-herd wide-eyed and smeared all over with sticky, liquefied guts, guns rattling all around them; sometimes, only yesterday. As the days blur together and summer edges closer, it seems all that remains of his family aren't the memories of their laughter and their voices and brighter days but all the what ifs and if onlys in the world.
It's a while before he picks up where they left off, sobering. "So, what's the plan? I mean, say we do end up runnin' into a settlement one a' these days, a place that's really got somethin' goin' for it... you ain't gon' give that a chance?"