He pauses, squeezing his eyes shut for a moment, and then answers in a tight voice, "It doesn't matter now." It's over. It's done. B likes to think that he wouldn't have just run off and left them there to continue their work - but that doesn't matter, because he never could have escaped if they were still active. They weren't going to let him go.
There's a moment of silence, and then he shifts, deliberately relaxing his posture as he meets her gaze again. He doesn't want to dwell on things now. "I took off after it was all said and done. I couldn't...be there anymore, it'd been too long. Didn't come straight here, but it's not so hard to end up in New York."
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He pauses, squeezing his eyes shut for a moment, and then answers in a tight voice, "It doesn't matter now." It's over. It's done. B likes to think that he wouldn't have just run off and left them there to continue their work - but that doesn't matter, because he never could have escaped if they were still active. They weren't going to let him go.
There's a moment of silence, and then he shifts, deliberately relaxing his posture as he meets her gaze again. He doesn't want to dwell on things now. "I took off after it was all said and done. I couldn't...be there anymore, it'd been too long. Didn't come straight here, but it's not so hard to end up in New York."