[With an exaggerated groan, he flops down to a sitting position on the opposite side of the fire, palms on the ground and legs crossed casually. He can't help but reflect on all of this, himself. He wouldn't have been caught dead buddying it up with some stranger in the middle of all this before, but he'd learned a handful of things from Lloyd, and those things had changed his views a bit. ...No, maybe they'd just given him more confidence to try for what he'd always thought.
Things like never finding it okay to abandon someone in need. That people could be good. That everyone was different and deserved some attention. Things like that.
It was dumb how much Lloyd's disappearance from this place had really struck that into him, too. And here he had still been sitting around with that self-pitying attitude. He really needed to cut that out. All he needed to know was that his friend thought his life had worth.
It surprised him how innocent and optimistic all of his interactions with people in Zelien were, these days.]
You expect me to go looking around this dump for something edible? I'll pass, thanks. I'm tired. Why don't you go get us some?
[The whining is heavily exaggerated, but he has fun like this. Effort's annoying anyway. That's just the kind of guy he is... Why do what he doesn't have to?]
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[With an exaggerated groan, he flops down to a sitting position on the opposite side of the fire, palms on the ground and legs crossed casually. He can't help but reflect on all of this, himself. He wouldn't have been caught dead buddying it up with some stranger in the middle of all this before, but he'd learned a handful of things from Lloyd, and those things had changed his views a bit. ...No, maybe they'd just given him more confidence to try for what he'd always thought.
Things like never finding it okay to abandon someone in need. That people could be good. That everyone was different and deserved some attention. Things like that.
It was dumb how much Lloyd's disappearance from this place had really struck that into him, too. And here he had still been sitting around with that self-pitying attitude. He really needed to cut that out. All he needed to know was that his friend thought his life had worth.
It surprised him how innocent and optimistic all of his interactions with people in Zelien were, these days.]
You expect me to go looking around this dump for something edible? I'll pass, thanks. I'm tired. Why don't you go get us some?
[The whining is heavily exaggerated, but he has fun like this. Effort's annoying anyway. That's just the kind of guy he is... Why do what he doesn't have to?]