[He is confident of this, now. He was most lost, most adrift, when he was fighting between the static in his head; once he'd given himself up to the comforting ritual of tracking down a Nomlie, abducting it, branding it, preparing it, and turning it loose to hunt down again, to kill, to collect tribute from, well. He was everything he'd been meant to be, then, and more. Capable. Deadly. Perfect.
What everyone else told him he should be. Ben searches her face for a moment, trying to decide something, but he already had or he wouldn't have sent the request at all. Definitively, he reaches for an inside pocket of one of his new jackets, and tells her:]
I have something for you. Did you receive the watch I requested?
[ Spam ]
[He is confident of this, now. He was most lost, most adrift, when he was fighting between the static in his head; once he'd given himself up to the comforting ritual of tracking down a Nomlie, abducting it, branding it, preparing it, and turning it loose to hunt down again, to kill, to collect tribute from, well. He was everything he'd been meant to be, then, and more. Capable. Deadly. Perfect.
What everyone else told him he should be. Ben searches her face for a moment, trying to decide something, but he already had or he wouldn't have sent the request at all. Definitively, he reaches for an inside pocket of one of his new jackets, and tells her:]
I have something for you. Did you receive the watch I requested?