[Once that's out there, though, he kind of tips his head a little, making his hands go still against his clothes so he doesn't pick all the detailing out.]
...I used to live with my cousins a while back. And there were a lot of us at one point. Our family had property and a business in Waterfall, anyway. Farming.
One by one the others left, off to pursue...other things. Whatever they wanted to do with themselves, I guess! Anything other than staying on the damn farm. And who can blame them, right? That sort of life is boring, and combined with the total monotony in the Underground...well, there wasn't much point in staying if you could do something better with yourself.
One of them was...kind of different, though, and didn't have any interest in leaving. I was closest to them out of all the others, and after a while it was just me and them left there. They asked me if I was going to leave, too, and I...promised I wouldn't abandon them or just leave them behind, ever.
[He laughs a bit, the sound dry; he shakes his head after a moment.]
But they didn't want anything for themselves. They just wanted to stay there, no matter what I said or did, and if I didn't leave on my own then I never would. And I didn't want that for myself, you know?
So I just...left, as soon as I got an opportunity, and I haven't spoken to them since.
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[Once that's out there, though, he kind of tips his head a little, making his hands go still against his clothes so he doesn't pick all the detailing out.]
...I used to live with my cousins a while back. And there were a lot of us at one point. Our family had property and a business in Waterfall, anyway. Farming.
One by one the others left, off to pursue...other things. Whatever they wanted to do with themselves, I guess! Anything other than staying on the damn farm. And who can blame them, right? That sort of life is boring, and combined with the total monotony in the Underground...well, there wasn't much point in staying if you could do something better with yourself.
One of them was...kind of different, though, and didn't have any interest in leaving. I was closest to them out of all the others, and after a while it was just me and them left there. They asked me if I was going to leave, too, and I...promised I wouldn't abandon them or just leave them behind, ever.
[He laughs a bit, the sound dry; he shakes his head after a moment.]
But they didn't want anything for themselves. They just wanted to stay there, no matter what I said or did, and if I didn't leave on my own then I never would. And I didn't want that for myself, you know?
So I just...left, as soon as I got an opportunity, and I haven't spoken to them since.