[ sam doesn't really need to admit it -- Clint's more than aware of Sam's adrenaline junkie urges. After all, you couldn't strap on metal wings and fly through a war zone without a good dash of recklessness. He would know.
In the Raft, such knowledge, such trust, was essential to their collective survival. Here, in the Nest with a handful of minds stitched in along side their own, the need hasn't faded. Shifted, changed, a bit of course. But they're both still relying upon each other, both still getting through day by day with the living gleam of each other's minds intertwined. Woven, now, not merely stitched in. Too much and too little, but a vital all encompassing part of who they are now nonetheless.
It mostly means Clint is well aware of the fading focus of Sam's thoughts as he's pulled in too many directions. With a faint impression of shoulders bumping companionably, he pulls back just a tad. certainly nowhere mere completely gone,sundered from their link, but there's something of a distance now. Something allowing sam time and thought to commit more readily to the diplomats vying for attention.
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In the Raft, such knowledge, such trust, was essential to their collective survival. Here, in the Nest with a handful of minds stitched in along side their own, the need hasn't faded. Shifted, changed, a bit of course. But they're both still relying upon each other, both still getting through day by day with the living gleam of each other's minds intertwined. Woven, now, not merely stitched in. Too much and too little, but a vital all encompassing part of who they are now nonetheless.
It mostly means Clint is well aware of the fading focus of Sam's thoughts as he's pulled in too many directions. With a faint impression of shoulders bumping companionably, he pulls back just a tad. certainly nowhere mere completely gone,sundered from their link, but there's something of a distance now. Something allowing sam time and thought to commit more readily to the diplomats vying for attention.
Not without a passing remark, though. ]
( yeah yeah, you an your day dreaming. )