The kid takes a moment before replying, words issuing after one another one by one, oddly systematic and mechanical.] He was fighting with Hibari when I found him.
[Why? Kino lived with Hibari, and he was strange—thorny, somewhat confrontational—but why had he been fighting with Nic like that, especially when the man was wounded in such a way? Didn't he know? Why didn't he try to help? Get him to the medical rover? Something? They could heal practically anything here—
Why?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.]
Before that, I— [A break, a pause, something sticking in Kino's throat and they shake their head, turning their face away.
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The kid takes a moment before replying, words issuing after one another one by one, oddly systematic and mechanical.] He was fighting with Hibari when I found him.
[Why? Kino lived with Hibari, and he was strange—thorny, somewhat confrontational—but why had he been fighting with Nic like that, especially when the man was wounded in such a way? Didn't he know? Why didn't he try to help? Get him to the medical rover? Something? They could heal practically anything here—
Why?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.]
Before that, I— [A break, a pause, something sticking in Kino's throat and they shake their head, turning their face away.
Part of this still feels like their fault.]