[maybe this is the dragon's lucky day (pardon the expression). Tonic can't afford to look up at Tek, not with this straight and long of a cut. it was also only one part of a complete thought, so there's a little more to his inexplicably precious story.]

I knew it wasn't going to happen, obviously, but it just felt so... infinitely big, and empty. I really didn't like it.

[as the two sides of the sleeve fall apart, he sighs a little, half a wide smile on his face as he continues to pin down the new seam without looking up.]

Go on, Up-Top, you can laugh.