[Lance is absolutely not drunk enough yet to deal with unexpected compliments, especially not ones that nice and sincere, without blushing a bit and being clearly a little flustered. He'll claim he doesn't need approval--and to an extent that's very true--and is used to not getting it, so when it's given it's usually totally unexpected and really means a lot.
That's even more so at the moment, when his self-esteem is even lower than usual, so he fidgets a little with tapping his fingers on his glass and glancing away for a few seconds before he can figure out how to reply.]
Thank you. I... Appreciate that.
[But even he can tell how lame that sounds, and he decides to elaborate a little.]
I just... Some people here don't have time to wait and risk being randomly sent home. I don't care who solves this whole thing, just that someone does, and that they do it fast enough that the people for whom this isn't just a vacation have a chance to control what happens to them.
[And some of that is selfish, because that's the same position Lance is in, but it's not just him. It's Nate, it's other people he's seen mention their deaths on the network, it's those like Ian whose worlds are horrible places to return to. All of these people deserve a future.]
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2020-11-16 08:49 pm (UTC)That's even more so at the moment, when his self-esteem is even lower than usual, so he fidgets a little with tapping his fingers on his glass and glancing away for a few seconds before he can figure out how to reply.]
Thank you. I... Appreciate that.
[But even he can tell how lame that sounds, and he decides to elaborate a little.]
I just... Some people here don't have time to wait and risk being randomly sent home. I don't care who solves this whole thing, just that someone does, and that they do it fast enough that the people for whom this isn't just a vacation have a chance to control what happens to them.
[And some of that is selfish, because that's the same position Lance is in, but it's not just him. It's Nate, it's other people he's seen mention their deaths on the network, it's those like Ian whose worlds are horrible places to return to. All of these people deserve a future.]