[ so it's her birthday soon? She really never gets a break. He doesn't have a good enough grasp of when they are to make that information useful, nor does he have anything he could possibly give her, anyway, but he stores the knowledge regardless. Bruno hums. ]
Don't underestimate his enthusiasm. Or his volume, for that matter.
[ she's right, though - he'd laugh about it. It's a nice memory for Bruno, those times with the old gang, even if it's bittersweet now. He doesn't miss the way she seems to sober at the mention of their names. The wounds are still fresh, to be sure, but he doesn't want to dance around the subject of them. He wants to remember them.
(Either that, or it all happened so fast and so recently that he still hasn't properly processed his grief. His existence continues to feel liminal, and he's so used to being the one who has to hold it together for everyone else. He's still doing it now.) ]
All of us would laugh about it, hard as it may be to imagine. [ since she's only known them as a bunch of thugs. which is also true, but still!! ] It's been a while. Seeing you up there reminded me of that.
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Don't underestimate his enthusiasm. Or his volume, for that matter.
[ she's right, though - he'd laugh about it. It's a nice memory for Bruno, those times with the old gang, even if it's bittersweet now. He doesn't miss the way she seems to sober at the mention of their names. The wounds are still fresh, to be sure, but he doesn't want to dance around the subject of them. He wants to remember them.
(Either that, or it all happened so fast and so recently that he still hasn't properly processed his grief. His existence continues to feel liminal, and he's so used to being the one who has to hold it together for everyone else. He's still doing it now.) ]
All of us would laugh about it, hard as it may be to imagine. [ since she's only known them as a bunch of thugs. which is also true, but still!! ] It's been a while. Seeing you up there reminded me of that.