( julian's chin jerks up sharply, eyes wide and kind of shocked, glassy again. not unlike the way he'd looked up when she'd tackled him to the ground in the first place, just unfathomably stricken to see and hear everything in front of him. then—something like pain, again. only more touched. he forgets to blink and his eyes well up as they dry out, so that his tears cut a few more icy streaks down his face when he finally does inhale again, open and close his eyes, speak. )
You stayed? You looked out for them? I...
( he'd like to reach out. get up and hug her, if he were himself, the old julian. any sort of julian, really, but he just isn't anymore, is he? instead he puts his arms around himself, shivering like he's cold. )
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( julian's chin jerks up sharply, eyes wide and kind of shocked, glassy again. not unlike the way he'd looked up when she'd tackled him to the ground in the first place, just unfathomably stricken to see and hear everything in front of him. then—something like pain, again. only more touched. he forgets to blink and his eyes well up as they dry out, so that his tears cut a few more icy streaks down his face when he finally does inhale again, open and close his eyes, speak. )
You stayed? You looked out for them? I...
( he'd like to reach out. get up and hug her, if he were himself, the old julian. any sort of julian, really, but he just isn't anymore, is he? instead he puts his arms around himself, shivering like he's cold. )
I don't know how to thank you.