[ A huff comes from her, still with a touch of endearment and love in it. ] You did more heavy lifting than you realize.
[ If what he had focused and been weaker, then they would still be struggling. Alan is stronger than he knows. She wonders if he'll ever see it.
« I hope he does. »
Where Jesse might normally hold her hand up for the help, she practically falls into the offered embrace. She knows she's not in the condition to insist otherwise. Her hand instead raises to gesture up to the floor above them. There's no real comfortable places in a morgue... and, well, she's sure Samuels will want to take a look at the two of them.
Her head rests against his shoulder. Jesse hates when her body feels like this. Sluggish, slow, unable to do anything. The Dark Presence has tested her limits and Polaris has drained her. It was bound to happen eventually in one of the loops.
« The story really is fighting us to keep Alan, isn't it? That's fine. It can fight all it wants. I'll keep fighting so he can focus on what he needs to do. He won't like the idea, but, it's what WE can do for him.
Have... have we already been doing this? Between the loops? Is that why Scratch is hunting us? It's different now. It's not... he's not trying to kill us now. He's... »
Jesse doesn't even want to finish the thought to Polaris. He's trying to take us for his own.
Her green eyes slide back up to Alan as she does her best not to feel like dead weight in his arms. She knows he's not going to like what she has to say. All she can hope is that he won't spiral out and let the waves take him away when she tells him. She's not in the position to pull him back out.
« Maybe that was part of Scratch's plan all along. If so? We know it's a trap and can avoid it. »
Jesse pulls her arms up once they get to the base of the stairs. ]
I think... [ Her gaze drops, but her voice is soft and quiet again. ] I think he's caught us between the loops. Polaris and I. I just--I don't remember everything. It's like a dream and trying to get the details is hard... but, I think, he's been trying to stop us. And he has stopped us. When we've been trying to reach you.
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[ If what he had focused and been weaker, then they would still be struggling. Alan is stronger than he knows. She wonders if he'll ever see it.
« I hope he does. »
Where Jesse might normally hold her hand up for the help, she practically falls into the offered embrace. She knows she's not in the condition to insist otherwise. Her hand instead raises to gesture up to the floor above them. There's no real comfortable places in a morgue... and, well, she's sure Samuels will want to take a look at the two of them.
Her head rests against his shoulder. Jesse hates when her body feels like this. Sluggish, slow, unable to do anything. The Dark Presence has tested her limits and Polaris has drained her. It was bound to happen eventually in one of the loops.
« The story really is fighting us to keep Alan, isn't it? That's fine. It can fight all it wants. I'll keep fighting so he can focus on what he needs to do. He won't like the idea, but, it's what WE can do for him.
Have... have we already been doing this? Between the loops? Is that why Scratch is hunting us? It's different now. It's not... he's not trying to kill us now. He's... »
Jesse doesn't even want to finish the thought to Polaris. He's trying to take us for his own.
Her green eyes slide back up to Alan as she does her best not to feel like dead weight in his arms. She knows he's not going to like what she has to say. All she can hope is that he won't spiral out and let the waves take him away when she tells him. She's not in the position to pull him back out.
« Maybe that was part of Scratch's plan all along. If so? We know it's a trap and can avoid it. »
Jesse pulls her arms up once they get to the base of the stairs. ]
I think... [ Her gaze drops, but her voice is soft and quiet again. ] I think he's caught us between the loops. Polaris and I. I just--I don't remember everything. It's like a dream and trying to get the details is hard... but, I think, he's been trying to stop us. And he has stopped us. When we've been trying to reach you.