[ The boy is used to being overwhelmed by certain intense thoughts. This is different: It's like he's swimming a marathon upstream. Of a total stranger. It doesn't make sense. His sass is therefore, mild at best when it emerges: ]
Say that when I let go of your hands and you float away again.
[ The sass is there, but overlapped and overwhelmed by flashes of thoughts he can't begin to fully understand. Wanda Maximoff. Pietro. Those are the only names he can cling to in the wave of someone else's understanding - of an unhappiness that premeates it all. Even when he settles on something else, even when he seems to catch up to the present... The younger teenager blinks, confused and processing. ]
I don't understand.
[ What he's thinking. What it all means. Nah, I'm the sprinter, he says and it's really all he needs. The speedster and his mindreading brother, Mister Bohnerific had said. He swallows and before he can thinks about it, before he can stop himself (which means, yes, letting go of his hand thanks diceroll 2/20). William - Billy? - is breathing out: ]
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Say that when I let go of your hands and you float away again.
[ The sass is there, but overlapped and overwhelmed by flashes of thoughts he can't begin to fully understand. Wanda Maximoff. Pietro. Those are the only names he can cling to in the wave of someone else's understanding - of an unhappiness that premeates it all. Even when he settles on something else, even when he seems to catch up to the present... The younger teenager blinks, confused and processing. ]
I don't understand.
[ What he's thinking. What it all means. Nah, I'm the sprinter, he says and it's really all he needs. The speedster and his mindreading brother, Mister Bohnerific had said. He swallows and before he can thinks about it, before he can stop himself (which means, yes, letting go of his hand thanks diceroll 2/20). William - Billy? - is breathing out: ]
You're Tommy.