[ Mitch typed without thinking. It was perhaps too honest, and it takes him a little longer to respond.
Because he has known Ruka longer than anyone else. He can count on his fingers the number of people that he would consider close enough to warrant even wanting to know like this. Eddie, Bradbury, Ruka... were there other people? One or two, maybe, but Mitchell knows he's kept people at a distance. How can he not? Ten years here means he's lost enough people, and... he knows that some things, one just doesn't talk about. It may be a different world, but Mitchell was never willing -- or able -- to be fully honest. He didn't have to with Ruka, she read it off of him without him having to speak a word.
And she didn't say anything, and now he wondered how much more she wasn't saying about herself, either? Reticence like hers was a double-edged sword. ]
Look, I just... I worry. I would have thought your old boss warranted an opportunity to at LEAST send flowers.
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Because he has known Ruka longer than anyone else. He can count on his fingers the number of people that he would consider close enough to warrant even wanting to know like this. Eddie, Bradbury, Ruka... were there other people? One or two, maybe, but Mitchell knows he's kept people at a distance. How can he not? Ten years here means he's lost enough people, and... he knows that some things, one just doesn't talk about. It may be a different world, but Mitchell was never willing -- or able -- to be fully honest. He didn't have to with Ruka, she read it off of him without him having to speak a word.
And she didn't say anything, and now he wondered how much more she wasn't saying about herself, either? Reticence like hers was a double-edged sword. ]
Look, I just... I worry. I would have thought your old boss warranted an opportunity to at LEAST send flowers.