[on the one hand, this makes a lot of sense. Tonic tilts his head curiously as the alcohol, the antipoisons, and even the other's enthusiasm for poisons in general are slotted snugly into a new context.
but people aren't... you can't just be...
he narrows his eyes while he tries to think his way through this. he has several conflicting ideas about what Tek may actually be, and they're all clamoring against his constant fear that saying the wrong thing will have the other turning on him.
eventually, he lets out the breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding, finally tilting his head as if to get a better angle on the mystery.]
I think you're telling the truth. [this is the most important thing to get out of the way, falling back on the set of rules that seems to have turned into the backbone of their strange relationship.] But I don't understand how.
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but people aren't... you can't just be...
he narrows his eyes while he tries to think his way through this. he has several conflicting ideas about what Tek may actually be, and they're all clamoring against his constant fear that saying the wrong thing will have the other turning on him.
eventually, he lets out the breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding, finally tilting his head as if to get a better angle on the mystery.]
I think you're telling the truth. [this is the most important thing to get out of the way, falling back on the set of rules that seems to have turned into the backbone of their strange relationship.] But I don't understand how.