Even though the Avox is leaving something for Linden Nill offers it a very small smile in passing, an unspoken kind of thanks. Whether or not it sees it or even acknowledges it is probably debatable, since it leaves just as quickly as it arrived, but she tries. Most of the Avoxes make her heart ache, and there's so little that can be done for them.
if it helps, you're a much better friend than he was near the end.
Nill has a first-class seat on the honesty train today, evidently. Or maybe that's the alcohol - she's had enough that her fingertips tingle, and she might even be willing to sleep if it occurred to her to lay down instead of continuing to be awake. But Linden's slow decline and destruction over the past ten years is a much different thing than his pointed collapse had been. In the end Nill's friend pulled it off in a matter of years, all while functioning mostly as normal, and the drugs weren't even what ultimately killed him. That part, however, she can't go into. It would be far too dangerous with the Capitol constantly peering over their shoulders.
It's one of the only times - the only time? - that he's mentioned his Arena to her, and Nill's eyes drift to the napkin dispenser again. She considers it for a few moments before apparently coming to a decision and pulling another out. Her expression is a little on the guilty side of things when she passes it over to him.
I watched some of your tapes. the first few and the end of the last. it was after we spoke the first time over the network. I should have told you sooner. I'm sorry.
At the time she'd just been trying to gauge what he was capable of - or, more specifically, what he wasn't. She wanted to see if he'd be able to help Clementine. She'd known it was a violation, but it wasn't until she spoke with him more that she realized just how gross of a violation it was.
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if it helps, you're a much better friend than he was near the end.
Nill has a first-class seat on the honesty train today, evidently. Or maybe that's the alcohol - she's had enough that her fingertips tingle, and she might even be willing to sleep if it occurred to her to lay down instead of continuing to be awake. But Linden's slow decline and destruction over the past ten years is a much different thing than his pointed collapse had been. In the end Nill's friend pulled it off in a matter of years, all while functioning mostly as normal, and the drugs weren't even what ultimately killed him. That part, however, she can't go into. It would be far too dangerous with the Capitol constantly peering over their shoulders.
It's one of the only times - the only time? - that he's mentioned his Arena to her, and Nill's eyes drift to the napkin dispenser again. She considers it for a few moments before apparently coming to a decision and pulling another out. Her expression is a little on the guilty side of things when she passes it over to him.
I watched some of your tapes.
the first few and the end of the last.
it was after we spoke the first time over the network.
I should have told you sooner.
I'm sorry.
At the time she'd just been trying to gauge what he was capable of - or, more specifically, what he wasn't. She wanted to see if he'd be able to help Clementine. She'd known it was a violation, but it wasn't until she spoke with him more that she realized just how gross of a violation it was.