[ they are mourning something alright and it's most definitely not their comrade ]

I might not be able to do anything to you… but there's plenty I can do to disincentivise others. But you'd feel guilty about that, wouldn't you? Mm. So there's something better than that——myself.

[ he lets himself get tugged, training his eyes directly on thorns'. ]

As you can imagine, being in Special Operations gives you a pretty unique skillset. You have to really understand the people and circumstances you're working with.

[ remember when thorns was willing to drop everything to take elysium to a clinic?

he takes his free hand and




digs his fingers into his wound.

surely there is a threshold of crazy here that thorns is no longer willing to tolerate… so much for a restful and uneventful evening… ]