[Steve stays near Heather, watching Blake. He reaches over and rests her paw on Heather's leg.
Blake is quiet for a long, long time. There's no sound but the hum of the gym's ventilation, and a napping Musharna's soft sighs of mist.]
Yeah.
Yeah, it does.
[He shakes his head heavily, causing a drop of cold sweat to run down his temple.] It wasn't that I made the wrong choice. I didn't make a choice at all. It's like a fuckin' coin flip, you know? Didn't have anything to do with me. Things fell one way, I killed him. Things fell another, I didn't. Pure fucking luck.
But you're right.
I don't know why I ended up the one I am, but that's...
[His eyes go up to the long bars of the fluorescent lights. Falling steady on him, not on a warehouse door.]
[action] "And then there was a unicorn. It was a jerk."
Blake is quiet for a long, long time. There's no sound but the hum of the gym's ventilation, and a napping Musharna's soft sighs of mist.]
Yeah.
Yeah, it does.
[He shakes his head heavily, causing a drop of cold sweat to run down his temple.] It wasn't that I made the wrong choice. I didn't make a choice at all. It's like a fuckin' coin flip, you know? Didn't have anything to do with me. Things fell one way, I killed him. Things fell another, I didn't. Pure fucking luck.
But you're right.
I don't know why I ended up the one I am, but that's...
[His eyes go up to the long bars of the fluorescent lights. Falling steady on him, not on a warehouse door.]
...that's the one I'd rather be.