It's too much, a little voice in him says. You can't ask that of someone, you should be able to handle it on your own, all the practice you've had.
A few months ago, he would have left it at that, but there's another voice now, smaller and softer but no less true.
It helps to help other people, it says, and it's true enough for him so what's stopping it being true for others? Fog eddies and swirls and then drifts away over damp cobblestones. Up ahead, there's a ringing voice; Flynn dismisses it for the moment, though it prickles at his head. ]
Only if you promise to do the same.
[ It's his compromise, tentatively-offered. ]
You won't ever have to go through it alone. All the knowledge we've picked up has to be useful for something!
[ The voice echoes again, a wordless shout, high and young-sounding. Flynn's head turns, just a bit. ]
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It's too much, a little voice in him says. You can't ask that of someone, you should be able to handle it on your own, all the practice you've had.
A few months ago, he would have left it at that, but there's another voice now, smaller and softer but no less true.
It helps to help other people, it says, and it's true enough for him so what's stopping it being true for others? Fog eddies and swirls and then drifts away over damp cobblestones. Up ahead, there's a ringing voice; Flynn dismisses it for the moment, though it prickles at his head. ]
Only if you promise to do the same.
[ It's his compromise, tentatively-offered. ]
You won't ever have to go through it alone. All the knowledge we've picked up has to be useful for something!
[ The voice echoes again, a wordless shout, high and young-sounding. Flynn's head turns, just a bit. ]