[The words coming out of Tadashi's mouth feel raw and bloody, like hamburger meat, and Wally gets the feeling it's the first time they've been said like this. Talking about it, about the big I.T. It sounds like how saying "I'm dead" felt, and Wally can't look away from how very, very still Tadashi is holding as he bores holes into the countertop.]
I know, man.
[He gets it. He knew once he was running that he wouldn't be running back. He figured, and he still was there, but it didn't seem like-] Doesn't feel real. Right? Even when you can just...tell, it's like- the- [Wally gestures with his hands, still holding the glass in one, circles around something in front of him that he can't see,] -the bigness doesn't hit you. It's just like if you realize that your car's out of gas, or that you forgot your phone at home.
[An inconvenience. Maybe it's different for Tadashi, but at the moment Wally knew he'd die, he just thought it was really annoying that he would go before finishing the job, before getting to say goodbye to Artemis, to his parents. It was just-]
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I know, man.
[He gets it. He knew once he was running that he wouldn't be running back. He figured, and he still was there, but it didn't seem like-] Doesn't feel real. Right? Even when you can just...tell, it's like- the- [Wally gestures with his hands, still holding the glass in one, circles around something in front of him that he can't see,] -the bigness doesn't hit you. It's just like if you realize that your car's out of gas, or that you forgot your phone at home.
[An inconvenience. Maybe it's different for Tadashi, but at the moment Wally knew he'd die, he just thought it was really annoying that he would go before finishing the job, before getting to say goodbye to Artemis, to his parents. It was just-]