Macaque had been about to say something about how he's not mad at Candid, but then Wash makes a point about Carolina and Macaque can't bear to dive back down into his own crap.
"I know that you'll be a good friend to her no matter what. She might be different, but you're not. It's fine to be sad about the disconnect even as you make new connections."
"Just brushed over the rest of that," he said with a dry chuckle.
"I am different," he said. "From the person she found after the snow. Even from the person she saved from getting shot in the neck. Less different from that guy, but still. We were a lot closer to the same spot when she showed up again. Hard to trust, still tempted by revenge. I was just recently suffering the extreme consequences of it and a new support network and it took longer for her to let them in. Took a while for me to be the person you know."
"Hey, I listened. I don't disagree, I'm just not sure I'm in a place to get into it much more tonight."
He nods. "You said that, yeah. And if nothing else, being dragged through the multiverse and having repeated amnesia will change a person. But she's not bound up in you not being who you were, it didn't sound like. She trusts you despite the timeline confusion."
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Re: Evening After Carolina Arrives
"I know that you'll be a good friend to her no matter what. She might be different, but you're not. It's fine to be sad about the disconnect even as you make new connections."
Re: Evening After Carolina Arrives
"I am different," he said. "From the person she found after the snow. Even from the person she saved from getting shot in the neck. Less different from that guy, but still. We were a lot closer to the same spot when she showed up again. Hard to trust, still tempted by revenge. I was just recently suffering the extreme consequences of it and a new support network and it took longer for her to let them in. Took a while for me to be the person you know."
Re: Evening After Carolina Arrives
He nods. "You said that, yeah. And if nothing else, being dragged through the multiverse and having repeated amnesia will change a person. But she's not bound up in you not being who you were, it didn't sound like. She trusts you despite the timeline confusion."