[A bout of giggling - holy shit, Ethan is actually letting him do it!]
Ohhhw, sure, suuuure! ["Shore, shooooore!"
Hands up a moment again, and a tilt of his head up a bit!] -- You don't got to worry about me, all right?
[Alas for partnerships of convenience -- every step of the way, Lucas is going to be hanging back, as much as he's permitted to. Taking in the scenery (speaking of shores) and interpreting it wound among flares of a nearly competitive brand of anger and disconnected, for-now-in-a-vacuum thoughts of this man's bloody rending burning tearing ripping screaming kicking smearing DEATH.
He's somehow simultaneously gratified with at the moment as a bit of play on its own, in some bizarre, by-design way and acutely not. Not, not, not. This isn't how it's meant to go, and this isn't how it's gonna end.
Still? What genuine amusement he's got going filters into his tone of voice automatically when he speaks. Light. Thinly-bubbling.
He raises his hand, annnnd doesn't wait to be called on.]
...Saaay, uh! [A couple of sharp, smothered coughs.] -- Ethan?
Haa, I'll hope to - and the same to you!
Ohhhw, sure, suuuure! ["Shore, shooooore!"
Hands up a moment again, and a tilt of his head up a bit!] -- You don't got to worry about me, all right?
[Alas for partnerships of convenience -- every step of the way, Lucas is going to be hanging back, as much as he's permitted to. Taking in the scenery (speaking of shores) and interpreting it wound among flares of a nearly competitive brand of anger and disconnected, for-now-in-a-vacuum thoughts of this man's bloody rending burning tearing ripping screaming kicking smearing DEATH.
He's somehow simultaneously gratified with at the moment as a bit of play on its own, in some bizarre, by-design way and acutely not. Not, not, not. This isn't how it's meant to go, and this isn't how it's gonna end.
Still? What genuine amusement he's got going filters into his tone of voice automatically when he speaks. Light. Thinly-bubbling.
He raises his hand, annnnd doesn't wait to be called on.]
...Saaay, uh! [A couple of sharp, smothered coughs.] -- Ethan?
[So much for shutting his trap.]