[The part about Rohan liking it when he smiles will probably register in a few minutes, and he'll be privately delighted by it, but for the time being he's still caught up in laughing and laughing, so hard he almost doesn't even have the chance to catch his breath in between before it's bubbling back out of his mouth again in peals of mirth.]
In my s— in the sc— you got stuck — !
[Save him, it's like the years and the trauma are melting away from where he always privately carries them in his shoulders and the lines on his face; he sounds and looks like a boy instead of a soldier in a young man's skin, like his horns and scales and wings are a costume instead of a curse.]
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[The part about Rohan liking it when he smiles will probably register in a few minutes, and he'll be privately delighted by it, but for the time being he's still caught up in laughing and laughing, so hard he almost doesn't even have the chance to catch his breath in between before it's bubbling back out of his mouth again in peals of mirth.]
In my s— in the sc— you got stuck — !
[Save him, it's like the years and the trauma are melting away from where he always privately carries them in his shoulders and the lines on his face; he sounds and looks like a boy instead of a soldier in a young man's skin, like his horns and scales and wings are a costume instead of a curse.]