[ Josh doesn't say a thing, just smiles in greeting as he slides into the opposite chair.
The exchange from earlier that afternoon lingers in his thoughts: Hikaru's eyes red-ringed, Stanley walking up with his sword drawn, the question of whether the boy was a mage, the quote from the bible and Josh's own manner of putting his foot down on the decision that no one was killing a kid on his watch.
He's only eighteen, he'd said, looking up at the Blade King and wondering again about Rethe's story. About the student he'd talked back from the edge all those years ago. About the nugget of information that he didn't doubt was truth, because Rethe looked the type to always stick to that -- how it hadn't just been Josh there that day, telling another student that making it through the next twenty-four hours would be hard but totally worth it, just as getting through the next forty-eight and then some would be if he just gave it a try. That Rethe and Hikaru had been around as well.
He turns one of the coffee cups around, so that they were all more ot less facing his companion. ]
LMFAO #foreveramused
The exchange from earlier that afternoon lingers in his thoughts: Hikaru's eyes red-ringed, Stanley walking up with his sword drawn, the question of whether the boy was a mage, the quote from the bible and Josh's own manner of putting his foot down on the decision that no one was killing a kid on his watch.
He's only eighteen, he'd said, looking up at the Blade King and wondering again about Rethe's story. About the student he'd talked back from the edge all those years ago. About the nugget of information that he didn't doubt was truth, because Rethe looked the type to always stick to that -- how it hadn't just been Josh there that day, telling another student that making it through the next twenty-four hours would be hard but totally worth it, just as getting through the next forty-eight and then some would be if he just gave it a try. That Rethe and Hikaru had been around as well.
He turns one of the coffee cups around, so that they were all more ot less facing his companion. ]