[ Having Vex this close eases everything. Even close enough to hear her breath hitching or her voice waver, all it does is remind him that whatever happened in that tomb, she'd come through it alive. The hazy details of the bargain fall further behind as she tells him about Percy, relegated to meaningless detail. Vax has made deals before. He'd have bargained for Percy as well, but he's relieved to hear that happy ending came at Pike's hands in Whitestone rather than under more fraught conditions. ]
He took it better than I did, I'm guessing?
[ The lightness of his tone is meant to brush aside how shaken he was. So he couldn't save everyone. No matter how many times that reality is reiterated, it never manages to take the sting out of the idea that one of their number had been hurt and killed. ]
We'll have to keep an eye on him here.
[ Whatever comes next will likely be dangerous. Vax is going to need to take care of them both, because even the assurance that they'll be rebirthed if necessary doesn't convince Vax that they could take any chances. ]
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He took it better than I did, I'm guessing?
[ The lightness of his tone is meant to brush aside how shaken he was. So he couldn't save everyone. No matter how many times that reality is reiterated, it never manages to take the sting out of the idea that one of their number had been hurt and killed. ]
We'll have to keep an eye on him here.
[ Whatever comes next will likely be dangerous. Vax is going to need to take care of them both, because even the assurance that they'll be rebirthed if necessary doesn't convince Vax that they could take any chances. ]