For once, Fio, the captain is not the problem. [As easy as it would be to put this all on him, Skulduggery knows that it isn't the realization of the timeline that's causing him so much confusion. It has nothing to do with the ship and everything to do with the version of himself who'd been trapped with the Faceless Ones.
There's no way to explain that. He can't. He doesn't want to. It'll only hurt more, make things worse in a way that he couldn't have repaired even before the time skip. But not explaining means he has nothing to offer all of her tears, which would have cut so much deeper only a few days ago. All he can do is keep hold of her until she physically tears herself away.]
...After the camping trip, something happened to me and I... mmm. I remembered more about my life. ["Remembering" a future event feels wrong, but what better word is there?] It was something that hadn't happened to me yet. And it disturbed me.
[He says it as if he doesn't mean it in a very real, very tangible way. As if it had been an upsetting time away, and not something that left him fundamentally altered.]
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There's no way to explain that. He can't. He doesn't want to. It'll only hurt more, make things worse in a way that he couldn't have repaired even before the time skip. But not explaining means he has nothing to offer all of her tears, which would have cut so much deeper only a few days ago. All he can do is keep hold of her until she physically tears herself away.]
...After the camping trip, something happened to me and I... mmm. I remembered more about my life. ["Remembering" a future event feels wrong, but what better word is there?] It was something that hadn't happened to me yet. And it disturbed me.
[He says it as if he doesn't mean it in a very real, very tangible way. As if it had been an upsetting time away, and not something that left him fundamentally altered.]