[…well… it was at least good to know that, should Sunny ever end up back at the River, he had at least one dependable set of bones near him…
And despite the joking tone that the skeleton took…] Run from… home…? [In all of the times that Sunny had felt overwhelmed, his father’s words (now forgotten) echoing in his head, the specter of Something floating behind him, all of his fears… he had never thought to run away.
Not physically, at least.
In fact, it’s the almost stunned silence that follows which has Sunny realizing… this was a first. Running like this.
Running from his problems was something he did often. He didn’t like confrontation, especially when it concerned the darker parts of reality (and his mind, though there it was easier to reset). He didn’t want to have the bitter and uncomfortable guilt that swirled inside of him to come out on accident… so it was easier to just not.]
Won’t… that make them… angrier?
[It seemed, for all the talk of the people back in the Oasis being worried, that the stronger (and more volatile) emotion was what he was afraid of. The longer you put something off, the larger the explosion when everything did come out, and…]
CW: brief hint of parental abandonment
And despite the joking tone that the skeleton took…] Run from… home…? [In all of the times that Sunny had felt overwhelmed, his father’s words (now forgotten) echoing in his head, the specter of Something floating behind him, all of his fears… he had never thought to run away.
Not physically, at least.
In fact, it’s the almost stunned silence that follows which has Sunny realizing… this was a first. Running like this.
Running from his problems was something he did often. He didn’t like confrontation, especially when it concerned the darker parts of reality (and his mind, though there it was easier to reset). He didn’t want to have the bitter and uncomfortable guilt that swirled inside of him to come out on accident… so it was easier to just not.]
Won’t… that make them… angrier?
[It seemed, for all the talk of the people back in the Oasis being worried, that the stronger (and more volatile) emotion was what he was afraid of. The longer you put something off, the larger the explosion when everything did come out, and…]