She doesn't flinch, and she doesn't look surprised. If anything, her expression remains an unrippled sympathetic. (Maybe there is something else there; but it's more at the walls he uses—tissue paper and timeless steel in one.) It's not like anyone in this room, or building, or family, doesn't know those facts.
The ones that are precisely the reason she came to tell him first, and that this could have gone so much worse if he hadn't been.
He's more alike than not to his father in that, and yet, again: he chose Dick.]
I know.
Why do you think I decided to tell you first?
[ Rhetorical.
And not, as would have been easiest, across the comms to all of the family at once. From a place she could have distanced herself.]
no subject
She doesn't flinch, and she doesn't look surprised. If anything, her expression remains an unrippled sympathetic. (Maybe there is something else there; but it's more at the walls he uses—tissue paper and timeless steel in one.) It's not like anyone in this room, or building, or family, doesn't know those facts.
The ones that are precisely the reason she came to tell him first,
and that this could have gone so much worse if he hadn't been.
He's more alike than not to his father in that,
and yet, again: he chose Dick. ]
I know.
Why do you think I decided to tell you first?
[ Rhetorical.
And not, as would have been easiest,
across the comms to all of the family at once.
From a place she could have distanced herself.]