flatteries: (walk on water make sure)
a man for flowers ✿ ( INIGO ) ([personal profile] flatteries) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere 2020-09-16 09:26 pm (UTC)

Inigo brushes off the part about the train being sentient for now. It's a discussion he's often edged near to with Nita, and it doesn't feel as important - and definitely not right now. Because Inigo really doubts that that is the part of all of this that bothers Roland, especially when you take into consideration what the man says before it. Only two people surviving of the entire purple team.

And Roland is a current leader of the purple team. And not just a leader in this place - back home too. It must mean he takes the responsibility even more seriously than some other leaders here might. Of course Roland would look off with the weight of the lives of everyone on the purple team on his mind. Both Inigo and Tidus are on it too, after all-- and who's to say how many more people who Roland deeply cares about.

Inigo stares at him, all quiet and big-eyed, before he slowly exhales.

".. It's okay." He gently takes a hold of Roland's arm, latching his own arms around it to cling to it. Then he leans against it sideways, letting his head rest against the other's shoulder. "I mean, it's awful that that happened.. but we're not going to let that happen again. We're in all this together, after all."

Maybe this is exactly where Inigo's weird duality comes from - the adult and the child at the same time. Because there is a part of him that innocently does want to believe in that. Because surely no one with good intentions or teamwork could ever perish. But at the same time, he knows - through lived experience, no less - that that is just not true.

But even with that inner struggle, Inigo would never want to outwardly project anything but what he's saying right now. Especially when Roland seems like he could not use any more negativity at this point. He just softly smiles, in case Roland casts a sidelong glance at him.

"I sure am not worried about it in the slightest with our fearless leader around."

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