Jin gnaws at the inside of his lip, as if trying to bite back the words, but he's been too forthcoming this evening to keep it from spilling out of his mouth.]
Asher, you don't-- [understand, you'll never understand, he can't know what it feels like; he hadn't been accepted, that was the entire reason he'd shaped himself into this pathetic street kid of a thief, wasn't it? He sits up straighter and pulls back from Asher, eyes despondent.]
You don't know what it's like for me. You can't know how hard it is for me to believe that.
[He can buy that he gets better. That he becomes more. But 'always' seems too good to be true.]
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Jin gnaws at the inside of his lip, as if trying to bite back the words, but he's been too forthcoming this evening to keep it from spilling out of his mouth.]
Asher, you don't-- [understand, you'll never understand, he can't know what it feels like; he hadn't been accepted, that was the entire reason he'd shaped himself into this pathetic street kid of a thief, wasn't it? He sits up straighter and pulls back from Asher, eyes despondent.]
You don't know what it's like for me. You can't know how hard it is for me to believe that.
[He can buy that he gets better. That he becomes more. But 'always' seems too good to be true.]