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maybe they could
sam and i were going to try to dig into that stuff more
winchester, i mean, when he gets back
if he's okay

That's Dean's brother, yeah?

If he's half so tough as the elder of the two, I assure you he'll be right as rain.

（ dean's had a traumatic life. stands to reason sam was there for some of that, and you build... callouses, almost, against it. dean shrugged off dying a hell of a lot easier than he shrugged off what lead to it, anyhow. ）

yeah, he seems tough
i just want to make sure, you know?
plus, uh
our relationship was different there

Understandable.

That was the case for a lot of us. It's gonna make Sunday dinners a lot more complicated, if you catch my drift.

god
no kidding
at least some of it was funny
did you see those suits sam drake liked to wear?

Nah.

Paid as little mind to the bread and circuses as I could, frankly.

（ even when it was on in the background, he did other things. he never had the taste for it. ）

yeah
i don't blame you
they sucked

Hell of a way to control the citizenry, though.

[ there's a moment as he steps inside, slipping his hands into his pockets that he stops for a moment. ]

What does "all of it" mean?

[ he'll get back to her on her question, but he's there's some context that he needs. ]

I died in the Quarry before the bombs went off. Is that what you mean?

[ it comes out so suddenly that it almost seems to surprise him. there's a little hm that comes out of his nose. ]

Yeah, that's what I mean.

[She's finding it easier to talk about as a thing that just happened, most of the time. It's like a defense mechanism against spiraling into remembering it fully.]

Yeah, um... I don't know much about what happened after, just that everything was a mess.

[ small steps, right? reconciling this is going to be difficult. and while there's not much that generally fazes Ren where he feels powerless in his own pursuit of action, trying to figure out what another aspect of himself would've done in a different world weighs differently. ]

There were a couple explosives that went off. One in the Volary, and another in the Quarry.

[She nods. She was told a bit about that, but not specific details.]

How much after that do you remember?

[ there's a little shake of his head, and he can feel his chest tighten a little. to his credit, his expression doesn't falter. ]

I think I died in the Volary.