[ Her plummeting emotions feel like a sucker punch. Practiced as he is at trying to shut his away, it's starting to feel like a slippery slope — like she's clawing at the edges of his own control, distress eating away at the edges.
He knows what it's like to feel the weight of hundreds on your shoulders, and some of that slips through the cracks of Clarke's composure, a brief and hollowed out flash of guilt before Mat tamps it out. ]
Down there on the planet. Blood and bloody ashes. [ Still a strange concept to wrap his head around, lore and reality be damned. It's easier to focus on that odd learning curve than the sting of Clarke's emotions. He doesn't envy it. Hope can be a good thing, but it can also be a strain, the set up to disastrous disappointment. He'd rather expect the worst and come out of things surprised. ] I reckon you'll find out soon enough, won't you?
[ There's a reluctant empathy for what she's feeling. Mat had felt that detachment when he'd spoken to the Darkling, and he'd found it jarring — closer than was natural, still, but nothing like this. ]
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He knows what it's like to feel the weight of hundreds on your shoulders, and some of that slips through the cracks of Clarke's composure, a brief and hollowed out flash of guilt before Mat tamps it out. ]
Down there on the planet. Blood and bloody ashes. [ Still a strange concept to wrap his head around, lore and reality be damned. It's easier to focus on that odd learning curve than the sting of Clarke's emotions. He doesn't envy it. Hope can be a good thing, but it can also be a strain, the set up to disastrous disappointment. He'd rather expect the worst and come out of things surprised. ] I reckon you'll find out soon enough, won't you?
[ There's a reluctant empathy for what she's feeling. Mat had felt that detachment when he'd spoken to the Darkling, and he'd found it jarring — closer than was natural, still, but nothing like this. ]