[ the broken arm. he remembers that, back from a time when they had still been together, when they'd come back to the station and he'd found her like that, unsure of how it had broken in the first place. had they really been taunting for that long?
he's supposed to have been protecting clara too, his entire deal wrapped around keeping her safe, but all these tricks, these traps, the way the threat has been revealed to have been amongst their own group. it's all proving to be even more complicated to achieve somehow. ]
sometimes when the mind is corrupted like that, it can be too late. i've seen it happened. the people had no hope of coming back.
[ what he doesn't say is how he had to help put a stop to it. ]
but newt wasn't gone. i could tell. even if plenty of people won't see it that way.
[ a pause, and then, ]
i need you to stay away from kirigan for a while.
[ he's not even sure whether she's around him much at all to begin with, but considering the limited number to their group, it wouldn't take much. ]
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he's supposed to have been protecting clara too, his entire deal wrapped around keeping her safe, but all these tricks, these traps, the way the threat has been revealed to have been amongst their own group. it's all proving to be even more complicated to achieve somehow. ]
sometimes when the mind is corrupted like that, it can be too late.
i've seen it happened. the people had no hope of coming back.
[ what he doesn't say is how he had to help put a stop to it. ]
but newt wasn't gone.
i could tell.
even if plenty of people won't see it that way.
[ a pause, and then, ]
i need you to stay away from kirigan for a while.
[ he's not even sure whether she's around him much at all to begin with, but considering the limited number to their group, it wouldn't take much. ]