[Bruce doesn't understand missing family, but he does understand having someone that feels like a limb, and there's aching phantom pains when they're not there. He's missed Betty every day for the past nine years, except that brief intermission in the middle when he'd seen her, as beautiful as he'd remembered.
That he has no hope of seeing her again, even if he does get back to his world, makes his voice soft and introspective when he replies.] I'm sorry. [He's never been good at platitudes, can't try to tell someone that something is better than it is. So all he says is,] At least you have some of them.
[The second half of their conversation leaves Bruce feeling slightly uncomfortable, because he never feels that any respect for him is deserved. He made his own bed and all he's doing is laying in it. It's just desserts. But he tries to play it off with a slight laugh, raising a hand to rub along his jaw.] Well. I'm not much of a warrior. At all.
But I agree with the principle. And power is, is just a weapon, and if you can't control the weapon then you shouldn't use it. [That much, at least, he believes wholeheartedly.]
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That he has no hope of seeing her again, even if he does get back to his world, makes his voice soft and introspective when he replies.] I'm sorry. [He's never been good at platitudes, can't try to tell someone that something is better than it is. So all he says is,] At least you have some of them.
[The second half of their conversation leaves Bruce feeling slightly uncomfortable, because he never feels that any respect for him is deserved. He made his own bed and all he's doing is laying in it. It's just desserts. But he tries to play it off with a slight laugh, raising a hand to rub along his jaw.] Well. I'm not much of a warrior. At all.
But I agree with the principle. And power is, is just a weapon, and if you can't control the weapon then you shouldn't use it. [That much, at least, he believes wholeheartedly.]