No. You don't need to. [He nods, getting this.] You know you do good work.
[Sometimes it was rushed work, but not this time.]
[The reach stalls where it is, though, and his fingers slowly close into a ball, and drop back to his side. It is always when he thinks he is getting close to Gunmax that there is this wall, impassable. Not so long ago, Deckerd had been the one to realize the wall had been erected out of pain--the fear of letting anyone close after Gunmax's partner had died.]
...
[And that, in a way, is mirrored right now. Gunmax had given in, and had let them close, and now Deckerd was gone and Todou was dead, and the number of people in Gunmax's life that he could rely on were depressingly few.]
I'm still here, Gunmax. [He says, softer.] You don't have to survive on your own.
I won't...
[This. This is the hard thing to say...but at the same time, it's the easiest part, as well, because it is the truth.]
I won't leave you.
[Inside the envelope...are silly things. Decals. Mostly, they are flames. Green flames. One has a flaming skull, and all of them are sized for Gunbike.]
ACTION;
[Sometimes it was rushed work, but not this time.]
[The reach stalls where it is, though, and his fingers slowly close into a ball, and drop back to his side. It is always when he thinks he is getting close to Gunmax that there is this wall, impassable. Not so long ago, Deckerd had been the one to realize the wall had been erected out of pain--the fear of letting anyone close after Gunmax's partner had died.]
...
[And that, in a way, is mirrored right now. Gunmax had given in, and had let them close, and now Deckerd was gone and Todou was dead, and the number of people in Gunmax's life that he could rely on were depressingly few.]
I'm still here, Gunmax. [He says, softer.] You don't have to survive on your own.
I won't...
[This. This is the hard thing to say...but at the same time, it's the easiest part, as well, because it is the truth.]
I won't leave you.
[Inside the envelope...are silly things. Decals. Mostly, they are flames. Green flames. One has a flaming skull, and all of them are sized for Gunbike.]