guess not huh there's been a lot going on when you drop by we can chat about it over some cookies?
[And it'll buy him some time to actually think about it. Ever since they woke up on the beach, he's tried to bury the war and his last connections to Remnant and turn away from it -- it's the advice he'd given Winter, too, and he doesn't really know how else to handle the situation. Thinking on what they've left behind feels as bottomless a pit as the one Ruby and her team fell into, and he's not sure he ought to look into it.
...At the same time, now that she's asked, he doesn't want to just brush it off with something like hey don't worry about it, I'm fine He has been trying to do better than that, since Argus.
Somehow it's easier to address the latter, even as much as it's painful. Trust is not something he gives out freely; he's habitually cynical and paranoid, burned enough times that he expects fire around every corner, even as he puts on his most flammable clown shoes for others again and again.]
...maybe not so sure she thinks of me as particularly awesome right now, but i'll think about it
[It's a step up from a flat refusal, at least, which is a lot coming from Qrow.]
no subject
there's been a lot going on
when you drop by we can chat about it over some cookies?
[And it'll buy him some time to actually think about it. Ever since they woke up on the beach, he's tried to bury the war and his last connections to Remnant and turn away from it -- it's the advice he'd given Winter, too, and he doesn't really know how else to handle the situation. Thinking on what they've left behind feels as bottomless a pit as the one Ruby and her team fell into, and he's not sure he ought to look into it.
...At the same time, now that she's asked, he doesn't want to just brush it off with something like hey don't worry about it, I'm fine He has been trying to do better than that, since Argus.
Somehow it's easier to address the latter, even as much as it's painful. Trust is not something he gives out freely; he's habitually cynical and paranoid, burned enough times that he expects fire around every corner, even as he puts on his most flammable clown shoes for others again and again.]
...maybe
not so sure she thinks of me as particularly awesome right now, but
i'll think about it
[It's a step up from a flat refusal, at least, which is a lot coming from Qrow.]