audience: north

[cyclists]

Comments

[unsaid]

I have had many people fuss over me in my lifetime - where I am to stay, how I am to be preserved, who might be able to lay their eyes upon me.

[it's not the first time he's been worried after, and yet - ]

But I cannot say that I have had so many think so much over my life before.

[televised]

[... ah. that hits a little close to home. her words have more bite to them when she replies, though she's not upset at him.]

Well, you better get used to it. Because you're a person. Not an object, and not the universe's fucking errand boy. Your life... matters to us. It matters to me.

[unsaid]

.... am I?

[there's just a soft question at that, like he's not entirely sure if he can wholeheartedly agree with her]

... mm, I suppose I must be.

Your words do warm my heart, after all.