[ He's not sure what he was expecting to hear, but he doesn't so much go quiet ( he's always quiet, always still ) but remains patient in slowed movements. Not looking at Jasper, for the moment keeping his attention strictly off him lest it force his words to become stilted with the pressure of being focused on.
The first part was an easy dismissal, a short shake of his head in response. ] Jasper, I knew exactly who I was looking for. There was no mistake in that. Not to my eyes. To Shepard's perhaps, but nor is she the kind to think such a thing either.
[ How he knows that, hardly matters right now. There's a pause, for the rest of it weighty and long as he considers how best to address the rest of it. ] Our Commanders... may think differently, there are people far stronger than myself as well. Wade, for one. [ a shrug, he's comfortable with it. ] But for the bravery you displayed for Terra, your ability to face these battles knowing your own limitations?
[ There's a precise certainty to it. Not in showy gesture but he weighs and measures everything. Perhaps not in a kind way. People had become about worth, about use, to him. It was not so clear cut here, admittedly, the way not a simplistic divide of in his way or not, so it allowed him a little more freedom in evaluating. But it's still given clinically, that way. Not so much warmth, as the way one appraised a blade if he were to be honest.
Or maybe that's just how he forces himself to the think, because it's safer than contemplating something half so muddy as how he feels about what transpired between them. ] I would have ten of your kind with your mettle as proven as men to fight, than those who could crack and split earth that did not know themselves so well in the face of such things.
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The first part was an easy dismissal, a short shake of his head in response. ] Jasper, I knew exactly who I was looking for. There was no mistake in that. Not to my eyes. To Shepard's perhaps, but nor is she the kind to think such a thing either.
[ How he knows that, hardly matters right now. There's a pause, for the rest of it weighty and long as he considers how best to address the rest of it. ] Our Commanders... may think differently, there are people far stronger than myself as well. Wade, for one. [ a shrug, he's comfortable with it. ] But for the bravery you displayed for Terra, your ability to face these battles knowing your own limitations?
[ There's a precise certainty to it. Not in showy gesture but he weighs and measures everything. Perhaps not in a kind way. People had become about worth, about use, to him. It was not so clear cut here, admittedly, the way not a simplistic divide of in his way or not, so it allowed him a little more freedom in evaluating. But it's still given clinically, that way. Not so much warmth, as the way one appraised a blade if he were to be honest.
Or maybe that's just how he forces himself to the think, because it's safer than contemplating something half so muddy as how he feels about what transpired between them. ] I would have ten of your kind with your mettle as proven as men to fight, than those who could crack and split earth that did not know themselves so well in the face of such things.