[his answer comes as if he can sense the unspoken caveat in the promise and has taken serious affront to the very idea. it's the sort of thing that he normally wouldn't give a second thought to - it was Kit's life, not his - but the idea of him folding to this unseen force simply because he couldn't get over some idiotic existential angst was for some reason absolutely intolerable.
what if he wanted another fight after their predetermined one? his own self-interest was at stake here, and although he's just made a blase claim to the contrary he'd more than willing to drag the other teen through whatever defiant measures may be necessary in the near future. no one got away that easily.]
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[his answer comes as if he can sense the unspoken caveat in the promise and has taken serious affront to the very idea. it's the sort of thing that he normally wouldn't give a second thought to - it was Kit's life, not his - but the idea of him folding to this unseen force simply because he couldn't get over some idiotic existential angst was for some reason absolutely intolerable.
what if he wanted another fight after their predetermined one? his own self-interest was at stake here, and although he's just made a blase claim to the contrary he'd more than willing to drag the other teen through whatever defiant measures may be necessary in the near future. no one got away that easily.]