[despite practically tripping over his brother in the attempt to hunt him down, Coil promptly abandons him again as soon as Saoirse arrives. she is the one who will fix everything after all, so he isn't going to further muddle things by getting in the way.
he hangs back a step, hovering and fretting while his mother-figure takes over... and he only moves from that nervous place when she slides words in his direction again. like a cold, keen little scalpel. it makes him flinch, slinking back another step along the wall.
it's not the first time he's heard those words. and so, with something in his chest hurting in a way that he'd forgotten it could, he nods.]
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he hangs back a step, hovering and fretting while his mother-figure takes over... and he only moves from that nervous place when she slides words in his direction again. like a cold, keen little scalpel. it makes him flinch, slinking back another step along the wall.
it's not the first time he's heard those words. and so, with something in his chest hurting in a way that he'd forgotten it could, he nods.]