❛ i did warn you not to trust me. ❜
TRUST IS NOT SOMETHING that’s given easily. or, at least, that’s what knuckles likes to tell himself: that he’s grown, that he’s more cautious now, that it doesn’t take a simple, single lie to get him to put his everything into the people around him. because that’s what he does, at the drop of a hat. if there’s even the slightest possibility of change, a potential that could go by wasted if he doesn’t take it, he reaches out with both of his hands and grabs the opportunity by the shoulders, dragging it along.
is that what he’s doing with shadow? dragging him along? is the hedgehog deserving of it, this amount of trust that knuckles is putting into him?
maybe. maybe not. but it’s always been hard for him to abandon people.
squinting his eyes at the other’s words, knuckles takes his time to contemplate the meaning behind them. he doesn’t know shadow, not in a way he’d perhaps like to, can’t estimate just how serious of a threat he is. better to be safe than sorry. shadow is powerful, and reckless, and so very miserable that it seeps out of him, laid down bare at knuckles’ feet.
and that, that’s dangerous.
‘ i don’t trust you, ‘ is what he settles on, meeting shadow’s gaze head-on, not backing down from the undeniable challenge behind the hedgehog saying so. doesn’t trust him like sonic, doesn’t trust him like tails. maybe knuckles’ hands are incapable of holding anything if they haven’t fought before. the furrow of his brows softens, then, the tiniest amount, but his voice remains steady as he adds: ‘ but i could. ‘
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