@othxllo | response to this
"Well..." He wasn't trying to put even more of a damper on her mood or anything, but the people in her squad definitely seemed like the type of people to go off and willingly walk into their own deaths if it meant protecting innocent people. For someone's feelings or not, lying just wasn't in Jules' blood.
But this time, his eyes wandered to her hands, clenched impossibly tight as if she could wrap her hands around the lives of her friends and keep them safe, safe, safe; her face red with—well, Jules was no good at emotions, but even he knew it was nothing good.
The tears glimmering inside her eyes, threatening to fall.
Mitsuba wasn't stupid, and neither was he. Both of them knew in this kind of world, there was every possibility someone close to them had gotten lost, off-track, injured, killed. Every possibility that while they sat here, someone else was fighting desperately for their life, or for someone else's.
But while hope could be considered stupid, you needed it to go on.
So he says a "Yeah," simply. "It's just a nightmare."