[Video; Laptop]

[youngestone]

[Another video from Killian that doesn't start with his face. This one starts with all the work he picked up in his last post spread out on a table, ready and waiting. A few pieces are wrapped but he's out of paper so.

For a week's work, it's all pretty damn fancy (and vaguely Celtic/Norse in design). Cheap materials, but fancy. His bow from before is also on the table and a set of armguards are on top of it. The bow is obviously not modern. The guards are, however.]

If you placed an order with me last week, it's done. Just tell me when you want me to deliver it or when you want to pick it up or who I should mail it to.

[He sounds much better than he did last week. He shifts the camera so he's in view.]

And...thanks to anyone who commissioned stuff. With all this and a few other sales I had more than enough to cover Mom's funeral. Which, um, was yesterday.

[Yep, still hurting from that. It takes a moment before he can speak again]

Anyway, sometime during all of this I got that bow on the table there [and here he picks it up] and I was wondering if anyone knows a place I could get arrows for it that won't ask where I got it or if anyone's had an arrow-making pulse recently or something.

Comments

[youngestone]

I...seriously, I don't think you get how much having people not my family actually give a damn about me means to me.

[He shifts, a little awkward]

S'weird, almost.

[betroth]

[ Chloe's quiet a minute, digesting that. ]

It was really just you and your mother for a long time, wasn't it?

[youngestone]

Actually, that was new. It was just us and the rest of the Ryan clan for my entire life before April, though. Never really had many friends outside of them.

[betroth]

Everyone deserves a chance, regardless of where they come from. I-I believe that... from the bottom of my heart.

[youngestone]

Th--ah.

[Why does he always get pulses when he's about to eat? He sways in his seat as the memory plays in his mind, frowning]

Pulse. Again. I swear, you and Skyler...

[betroth]

[ Blinking over at him once she's able to stop at a red light, her eyes are wide. ]

Another one? [ A beat, before she smiles a little. ] ...I suppose — no, I am grateful that I'm not the only one to have told you that.

[youngestone]

You and Skyler give me more pulses than the doc, and we're from the same place.

[He laughs weakly, digging around in the glovebox for any sign of painkillers. Pulses give him headaches]

Yeah, though...it wasn't aimed at me? But with this group of people I was with. Something about a guy who didn't belong coming back to help us get our home back--remember that song I got back when we first met? I think that's related--but he came back because he had a home and we didn't.

[Killian sighs]

Nice to know some things never change.

[betroth]

How could I — what do you need? Ah, look here — [ she taps on the compartment between the seats ] ...yes, I remember. It was beautiful. And meant you were looking for a home?

[youngestone]

Painkillers. Those stupid pulses give me a headache.

[He digs through it]

Yeah, I mean, I'm assuming that the home mentioned in the song is the one we were going to get back. Makes sense, right?

[betroth]

[ Humming, she keeps her eyes on the road and turns off onto a side-street. It's still a little before the dinner rush, so the diner there, which had a bit of everything, was still mostly empty. ]

It does. Helping you find the place you belonged... whoever it was must have been brave. That's not a small thing to do for someone else.

[youngestone]

Yeah, I...I got that feeling from the guy in the pulse. Someone wasn't too impressed but you can't please everyone.

[betroth]

Accepting help from someone is also a form of bravery, wouldn't you think? [ Chloe turns into the parking lot. ] Knowing you have a path to walk is different from asking someone to walk it with you.

[ She cuts the engine and smiles. ]

Here we are! Still hungry?

[youngestone]

[He doesn't respond to the first, but he nods at her question]

Yeah, maybe food'll help kill this headache before it gets bad.

[betroth]

Then, let's go get you that burger. I heard this is the best place to get one on this side of town!