Roland watches Signless's hands, reads the movement as a nervous gesture. Genuine offer, then.
To be honest, he has been avoiding the arena reruns. There's no way, though, to completely avoid them. And even if he does take advantage of the polite excuse Signless had given him to leave Cuthbert will still be dead, replays of that death will still be near-impossible to avoid, and someone Roland thinks of as his - even distantly - will be sitting alone in this room, watching Capitolites thrill over footage of himself hurting people he cares about.
Some people need to be needed, Roland'd been told, long ago. He wasn't one of those people then, and thinks probably he still isn't. Not quite.
Roland lowers himself to sit back beside Signless, nods at him. "This sort of thing's probably best done in company, anyway."
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To be honest, he has been avoiding the arena reruns. There's no way, though, to completely avoid them. And even if he does take advantage of the polite excuse Signless had given him to leave Cuthbert will still be dead, replays of that death will still be near-impossible to avoid, and someone Roland thinks of as his - even distantly - will be sitting alone in this room, watching Capitolites thrill over footage of himself hurting people he cares about.
Some people need to be needed, Roland'd been told, long ago. He wasn't one of those people then, and thinks probably he still isn't. Not quite.
Roland lowers himself to sit back beside Signless, nods at him. "This sort of thing's probably best done in company, anyway."
He doesn't need to be needed. But it helps.
((aaaaand... fade))