[Thank you— You shouldn't have come back for me— I'm glad you're here— Let go of me and run—
A dry tangle of sentiments he seems to choke on as she pulls him upright, her grip so secure that the dull shaking in his forearms seems to steady in response, heavy arm tucked around her shoulders.
He cuts himself off at the same time she barks at him to move, and he does. One foot in front of the other, angle offset and awkward for how he can't sense accuracy with every other step. In that moment he isn't thinking about Markus or Simon, he isn't drawing relief from the idea that they might have escaped before the FBI tightened their grip on the harbor and its byways: the air is too thick with smoke, North's hold is too strong, he's slowing her down, the alley's too far.
His fingers tighten in the layered fabric of her coat.]
I'm with you.
[Mechanized calculations: he isn't able to gauge his weight distribution when it connects with the ground, but he can, by narrowing his subroutines, predict an appropriate angle and synchronize his movements with it. Take the pressure off of her and speed up their pace in the process.
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[Thank you— You shouldn't have come back for me— I'm glad you're here— Let go of me and run—
A dry tangle of sentiments he seems to choke on as she pulls him upright, her grip so secure that the dull shaking in his forearms seems to steady in response, heavy arm tucked around her shoulders.
He cuts himself off at the same time she barks at him to move, and he does. One foot in front of the other, angle offset and awkward for how he can't sense accuracy with every other step. In that moment he isn't thinking about Markus or Simon, he isn't drawing relief from the idea that they might have escaped before the FBI tightened their grip on the harbor and its byways: the air is too thick with smoke, North's hold is too strong, he's slowing her down, the alley's too far.
His fingers tighten in the layered fabric of her coat.]
I'm with you.
[Mechanized calculations: he isn't able to gauge his weight distribution when it connects with the ground, but he can, by narrowing his subroutines, predict an appropriate angle and synchronize his movements with it. Take the pressure off of her and speed up their pace in the process.
It isn't much, he knows, but— ]
Go.