You're right. [It's not that Dixon believes for a moment Shuichi's right. He saw the whole thing, and even though he doesn't remember it all well, he knows if he'd just been a little faster to get to them things might have turned out different.
It's that enlisting Shuichi in his guilt spree doesn't seem to be helping the kid at all. Some people are always hungry for someone to blame, but Shuichi isn't the type, and in the balance between Dixon's concern and his self-absorption, this time concern comes out ahead.
So time to switch. Shuichi doesn't seem particularly happy about talking about the past prior to this quest, so Dixon scrounges around for any sort of hook. Mentally, he crosses things out as he takes from the discard pile. Probably shouldn't ask Shuichi if he's got a girlfriend - for all he knows she's back home and Shuichi misses her (the idea that she might be dead or worse doesn't cross Dixon's mind); the same goes for family. The battle's an awful topic of conversation, and it's not that the future is bleak, but that it's so unpredictable.]
You going to be reading many of the books out here? You seem like you'd be a reader. [Shockingly, Dixon isn't, but he'll try and find something about them to talk about if it fills the time with something besides that heavy, anxious, smothering feeling in the air.]
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It's that enlisting Shuichi in his guilt spree doesn't seem to be helping the kid at all. Some people are always hungry for someone to blame, but Shuichi isn't the type, and in the balance between Dixon's concern and his self-absorption, this time concern comes out ahead.
So time to switch. Shuichi doesn't seem particularly happy about talking about the past prior to this quest, so Dixon scrounges around for any sort of hook. Mentally, he crosses things out as he takes from the discard pile. Probably shouldn't ask Shuichi if he's got a girlfriend - for all he knows she's back home and Shuichi misses her (the idea that she might be dead or worse doesn't cross Dixon's mind); the same goes for family. The battle's an awful topic of conversation, and it's not that the future is bleak, but that it's so unpredictable.]
You going to be reading many of the books out here? You seem like you'd be a reader. [Shockingly, Dixon isn't, but he'll try and find something about them to talk about if it fills the time with something besides that heavy, anxious, smothering feeling in the air.]