It's a hard thread to grasp. She knows she shouldn't be in this position to begin with -- knows she could've asked sooner. Could've asked back on the train, when it hit her Rosetta was gone, too. But... She didn't wait until it was too late. (Only almost.) But she didn't.
The gust saves her from figuring out what to say to that. She burrows her face into his chest and doesn't let herself think about anything other than the fact that he's here. Solid. Too real. The physical presence of what she has left.
Then he talks again, and... and. Yeah. Too real, alright.
"... mm." That confirmation noise again. "That... I don't... That's not..." It's still too hard to talk about without making an idiot of herself. "That's not what I... That isn't bothering me." She kind of wishes he hadn't put it that way. But that's how Yondu is. He's good at condensing it all down to the core of it. The heart. But of all the things she's done wrong, she's... fairly confident that this time, she didn't mess that up, at least. She knew she needed to say it again, all those things she told Mami in her own timeline.
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The gust saves her from figuring out what to say to that. She burrows her face into his chest and doesn't let herself think about anything other than the fact that he's here. Solid. Too real. The physical presence of what she has left.
Then he talks again, and... and. Yeah. Too real, alright.
"... mm." That confirmation noise again. "That... I don't... That's not..." It's still too hard to talk about without making an idiot of herself. "That's not what I... That isn't bothering me." She kind of wishes he hadn't put it that way. But that's how Yondu is. He's good at condensing it all down to the core of it. The heart. But of all the things she's done wrong, she's... fairly confident that this time, she didn't mess that up, at least. She knew she needed to say it again, all those things she told Mami in her own timeline.