[ Matt grimaces as Kaeya answers in the affirmative. Wings flap in his mind's eye, the wind of them whipping begone begone begone-- ]
I don't think any of us have the full picture, [ he says, ] but ... I'm with Paul. This feels like an incredibly unstable situation.
[ The instability of it is obvious in some senses--the degree of Kaeya's injuries, for one. But Matt's worries transcend the obvious and physical, extending to something he might call "fabric of reality problems" if he had to put a name to them.
He frowns Paul's way at the mention of Kenoma-on-Kenoma violence, a pang of guilt hitting him. He can't say for sure that the person who did that was Barnaby, but the alternative is that more than one Kenoma is hurting their fellows, and Matt doesn't love either option. ]
In more ways than one, it sounds like, [ he concludes. ] I'm sorry that happened.
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I don't think any of us have the full picture, [ he says, ] but ... I'm with Paul. This feels like an incredibly unstable situation.
[ The instability of it is obvious in some senses--the degree of Kaeya's injuries, for one. But Matt's worries transcend the obvious and physical, extending to something he might call "fabric of reality problems" if he had to put a name to them.
He frowns Paul's way at the mention of Kenoma-on-Kenoma violence, a pang of guilt hitting him. He can't say for sure that the person who did that was Barnaby, but the alternative is that more than one Kenoma is hurting their fellows, and Matt doesn't love either option. ]
In more ways than one, it sounds like, [ he concludes. ] I'm sorry that happened.