[He doesn't expect it to actually go anywhere, but - he'll give it to Jay, for this. He's surprised him. It makes perfect sense, now that he considers it. He's given everything for answers before. Uprooted his entire life, charged into a state-wide road trip without any promise that something would actually come of it.]
[He's not handling it well. The corner of his lip twitches vaguely. It'd be weird to comment on it, wouldn't it?]
[Jay is the ghost of an ache in the back of his head. It used to be that he was aware of his absence the way he was aware of another person in the room. It feels cruel to say it, wrong to think it, but for a time he could almost pretend that he was...fine with it.]
[That he could just live with that unresolved weight in the pit of his stomach, forever.]
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[He's not handling it well. The corner of his lip twitches vaguely. It'd be weird to comment on it, wouldn't it?]
[Jay is the ghost of an ache in the back of his head. It used to be that he was aware of his absence the way he was aware of another person in the room. It feels cruel to say it, wrong to think it, but for a time he could almost pretend that he was...fine with it.]
[That he could just live with that unresolved weight in the pit of his stomach, forever.]
Wonderland, huh?
Just got here.