[ Because he wouldn't touch these. Not with the same, what is it, reverence? Interest? He doesn't believe in these cards and he thinks if they do have any kind of power at all, they wouldn't believe in him either. Mal had explained it to him, that there's a push and a pull, a trade of favor. It's a relationship. ]
It might be weighing on my mind. You have seen them, right? [ Predators, the lot of them. ] I'm at the bottom of the food chain.
[ Though really, he's not as worried about it as he should be. Maybe it comes from his danger switch being completely burned out thanks to one Dominick Cobb. Or maybe he just hasn't processed all of it and it'll come hit him in the form of a melodramatic meltdown. Whatever the case, he's here and he's got a job to do.
So he doesn't waste his time worrying over being consumed. He's thinking further than that, further than this planet and this mission. What does COST hold? Where does he fit into it all? Will he get the chance to see anyone he knows again?
(He thinks of Eames, his thief trained hands shuffling a deck of cards with ease, grin crooked– he'd gone back home and left him here, somehow). ]
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[ Because he wouldn't touch these. Not with the same, what is it, reverence? Interest? He doesn't believe in these cards and he thinks if they do have any kind of power at all, they wouldn't believe in him either. Mal had explained it to him, that there's a push and a pull, a trade of favor. It's a relationship. ]
It might be weighing on my mind. You have seen them, right? [ Predators, the lot of them. ] I'm at the bottom of the food chain.
[ Though really, he's not as worried about it as he should be. Maybe it comes from his danger switch being completely burned out thanks to one Dominick Cobb. Or maybe he just hasn't processed all of it and it'll come hit him in the form of a melodramatic meltdown. Whatever the case, he's here and he's got a job to do.
So he doesn't waste his time worrying over being consumed. He's thinking further than that, further than this planet and this mission. What does COST hold? Where does he fit into it all? Will he get the chance to see anyone he knows again?
(He thinks of Eames, his thief trained hands shuffling a deck of cards with ease, grin crooked– he'd gone back home and left him here, somehow). ]