It's bound to. This doesn't look the work of ambitious first-timers.
[ Which means there are well-armed strangers much more well established than they are, somewhere out here. Which could be a good thing - or very, very bad.
He knows which way his paranoid intuition is leaning, but he's not trying to fearmonger, either.
The question surprises him, just as he's taking an interest in what she's doing with that phone again - and his immediate response is reflexive defense. ]
No.
[ ...Amended reluctantly, after a beat. ]
...Not much. [ His fingers twitch as he doesn't reach for his forearm again. ] Why?
no subject
[ Which means there are well-armed strangers much more well established than they are, somewhere out here. Which could be a good thing - or very, very bad.
He knows which way his paranoid intuition is leaning, but he's not trying to fearmonger, either.
The question surprises him, just as he's taking an interest in what she's doing with that phone again - and his immediate response is reflexive defense. ]
No.
[ ...Amended reluctantly, after a beat. ]
...Not much. [ His fingers twitch as he doesn't reach for his forearm again. ] Why?