[ After everything she's just done for him — the effort of coming out to find him, to bring him back, to worry over him and rebuke him and put herself at risk for him, all of it playing again and again in his mind — he wants to believe her. He wants to just do this one thing for her, so badly. But Amos also knows just how well he's kept things tamped down, and there's absolutely no way it could have come up. Not when he'd barely even recognized himself as Amos at the time. The sheer shock of hearing his birth name was what had given her an edge in, not the other way around.
He's silent for a long moment, walking beside her in silence, debating how to proceed. There's a strong sense of doubt coming from him, though. If all of this has proven anything, it's that only he really gets how his brain works, so her explanation doesn't add up.
... Fuck it. ]
Yeah, maybe.
[ His heart's really not in the words, but they're... passable. Are they passable? Whatever; if he wants to let her off the hook, that's the best he can do.
Amos risks another glance back at her. ]
I'm lucky you found me, then.
[ Whatever it was that had compelled her to shout out his birth name — nobody else had. So that part really is the truth. He is lucky it was her, and he owes her big for it.
At least he's got a starting point for paying her back. ]
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He's silent for a long moment, walking beside her in silence, debating how to proceed. There's a strong sense of doubt coming from him, though. If all of this has proven anything, it's that only he really gets how his brain works, so her explanation doesn't add up.
... Fuck it. ]
Yeah, maybe.
[ His heart's really not in the words, but they're... passable. Are they passable? Whatever; if he wants to let her off the hook, that's the best he can do.
Amos risks another glance back at her. ]
I'm lucky you found me, then.
[ Whatever it was that had compelled her to shout out his birth name — nobody else had. So that part really is the truth. He is lucky it was her, and he owes her big for it.
At least he's got a starting point for paying her back. ]