[Not "you're welcome". Thanks go both ways. Especially for the second part - Zane doesn't have to do that. It is respect, which is new and odd, but also nice.]
I told him what happened, that it wasn't your fault. I think it's okay. But - really. Thanks.
[On the other end of the line, he's smiling lightly, not even entirely aware of it. Pleased. Feeling, for a moment, very understood, as close to normal as he can be.]
[private/voice]
[Not "you're welcome". Thanks go both ways. Especially for the second part - Zane doesn't have to do that. It is respect, which is new and odd, but also nice.]
I told him what happened, that it wasn't your fault. I think it's okay. But - really. Thanks.
[On the other end of the line, he's smiling lightly, not even entirely aware of it. Pleased. Feeling, for a moment, very understood, as close to normal as he can be.]
Try not to puke up a kidney, okay?