Oh, definitely. Think some of us got it real bad. [ He's thinking of Phil, especially, mainly because Phil nearly collapsed like a house of cards.
For a while after, Day is quiet as he weighs his options, tired as he is. ...Maybe he really is slipping up, like having told one person in a moment of intense emotion has led to a leak being sprung in the metaphorical dam, and now the idea of telling others some variation of the truth feels less meaningless.
(Or to put it another way, if people will end up forgetting him after everything is said and done, does it really matter whether or not he tells them something that cleaves a little too close to his heart? Talking into the void here can't really come back to haunt him, so to speak.)]
Well, only if you take what I say as a what-if. [ This is him compromising, in a way. ]
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For a while after, Day is quiet as he weighs his options, tired as he is. ...Maybe he really is slipping up, like having told one person in a moment of intense emotion has led to a leak being sprung in the metaphorical dam, and now the idea of telling others some variation of the truth feels less meaningless.
(Or to put it another way, if people will end up forgetting him after everything is said and done, does it really matter whether or not he tells them something that cleaves a little too close to his heart? Talking into the void here can't really come back to haunt him, so to speak.)]
Well, only if you take what I say as a what-if. [ This is him compromising, in a way. ]