Originally Posted by
grampagen
Zaofan's lips parted and his teeth pressed together when Sarada's fingers dug into the table. I'll make a note to Kai to patch that up...
"Hey, now, I was there, you know," he said, "Though uh...yeah I kinda wiped out after pulling Totoma out from the brink, but still, that's no excuse for standing by and saying nothing. We're all involved in this together, we motley mortals."
Pressing his lips together, he thought very carefully about his next words. Sarada was talking it out, trying to understand and process all these pent-up feelings, and he'd listen.
"We're all in this together. All the same, you'll have to refresh my memory about what everyone else seems to be missing, because all I remember is some guff that, from all indications, we can't change the outcome the way things are going."
Now, he'd had his misgivings when anyone put him off with open, hostile disrespect, but ever since the day he faced down The Sherriff in a quickdraw, he'd had ample time to reflect on sacrifice, and how far he'd be willing to go.
"Now I'm not sure if she was necessarily telling us that, as a friend, so to speak," he said, "But she had to have known that we wouldn't stand by to bear her problems in silence. You least of all."
Of course, the mention of Parsley withholding things as well was entirely new to him, especially on the heels of her whisking off to...some place just a moment ago. Lotta secrets being hushed up...
"Ah, we're of a kind. I don't think I've ever had the pleasure to be surrounded by this many folks who respond so poorly to being told they can't do something," he smiled, "But if it's us against the universe, we need to be able to lean on each other all the more, you know what I mean? And that means we don't give up on each other."