[Dixon sounds a little defensive, and even looks a little bit hurt at even the slightest implication that maybe he had been in the wrong in that particular circumstance, that split-second decision to behead one of the things attacking them. It's all just compounded by the fact that he's unfamiliar with the word Kal just used, but gets the sense that he probably should know it.]
It's got me uneasy, actually. People their age should be worrying about prom or...whatever it is kids do these days, not camping up in the middle of nowhere waiting for monsters to come down on them. There's too many of them for me to babysit them all.
[Dixon really does believe that he's somehow responsible for the younger people here, and the fact that he knows he's not doing an even remotely passable job at taking care of them is yet another whip to beat himself up with. They get up out of the temple and start heading into the woods, not so much down a path as in the general direction of the Emerald City.]
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[Dixon sounds a little defensive, and even looks a little bit hurt at even the slightest implication that maybe he had been in the wrong in that particular circumstance, that split-second decision to behead one of the things attacking them. It's all just compounded by the fact that he's unfamiliar with the word Kal just used, but gets the sense that he probably should know it.]
It's got me uneasy, actually. People their age should be worrying about prom or...whatever it is kids do these days, not camping up in the middle of nowhere waiting for monsters to come down on them. There's too many of them for me to babysit them all.
[Dixon really does believe that he's somehow responsible for the younger people here, and the fact that he knows he's not doing an even remotely passable job at taking care of them is yet another whip to beat himself up with. They get up out of the temple and start heading into the woods, not so much down a path as in the general direction of the Emerald City.]