I turned to look at her, and her expression changed. Was it the look on my face? I wasn’t sure what emotion I was conveying. Anger? Disappointment? Regret?
Sadness?
“A motel, maybe,” I said. “Why? Are you going to have to hunt me down? Tie up a loose end?”
“You know we wouldn’t.”
I… have a feeling Taylor might admit what she was originally planning by the end of this exchange.
“Sure. I suppose he’ll send the Travelers after me if he goes that route.” I pulled my mask off and put it away in the backpack.
…fair point. The Undersiders are too unreliable given their personal attachment to Taylor.
“I don’t even want to look at myself in the mirror, right now. Even if we came to some sort of agreement, made a plan to save her together, go against Coil…” I trailed off, trying to find the words, “I can’t face everyone else and pretend like things are normal. Even if we were working to save her… it feels disrespectful. Dinah deserves better than that.”
Yeah…
“Believe it or not, Brian’s as freaked out as you are. If he’s being weird or out of character, it’s just him defaulting to his core programming, you know what I mean? Like Bitch getting angry, or you going quiet and wary.”
People cope with things in different ways, a lot of which are like this.
But, Tattle, I think this is pretty much the problem. Taylor is upset at seeing what the core programming really is here.
I shrugged, tied my sweatshirt around my waist, told her, “In hindsight, I don’t think it was that out of character for him. Part of the reason I’m leaving.”
Yeah.
“Is this leave permanent or temporary?”
“Don’t know.”
“Are you going to do something stupid like try to rescue Dinah yourself?”
“Don’t know,” I repeated myself.
Heh. Well, at least she’s sort of acknowledging that she might come back. Mostly, though, she’s saying there’s a lot she doesn’t know about her future.
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