[The tense shift. It doesn't hit Dirk quite the same way as it hit the others. You can only end up living post an apocalypse so many times before you just default everything to past tense. But that doesn't mean a part of him has not completely broken with the loss of his loved ones. It just broke earlier. So.
He has no idea how to do sympathy, though, so he'll just focus on the task at hand. He blinks at her, processing what she's saying, but the shades hide that he's honestly just kind of confused at what he thinks is an offer but can't be sure?]
Not really. I was planning on running it solo if I had to.
[Because he thinks that he, a sixteen year old who has messed up virtually every plan he has ever enacted, can solo this.
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He has no idea how to do sympathy, though, so he'll just focus on the task at hand. He blinks at her, processing what she's saying, but the shades hide that he's honestly just kind of confused at what he thinks is an offer but can't be sure?]
Not really. I was planning on running it solo if I had to.
[Because he thinks that he, a sixteen year old who has messed up virtually every plan he has ever enacted, can solo this.
Lyse, he needs you.]