During the first few hours of sleep he’d gotten in stars knows how long, Techie had a dreamless, comforting rest. He kept perfectly still and practically fell into a coma… but then slipped in the memories.
MaMa’s face hovering over him, the split second of ice cold terror between her fingers darting towards his eyes and feeling them carving his eyes out of their sockets, screaming, so much screaming, he can’t- HE CAN’T–
Techie awakes with an inhuman shriek and throws off the covers, scrambling to his feet before he can realize where he is.
Sensing the shift in Armitage, the ghost of their past seems to flicker over Techie’s face: for a moment, his shoulders straighten up and there’s a confidence to him he’d held before. A split second later it’s gone.
“I’m… lost, r-really. But calmer, too. You killed her! Thank you so m-much! That woman was the source of all m-my nightmares.” Techie looks like he wants to pull Hux into a hug but decides against it last minute.
“You’ve done w-well for, um, yourself. Really good.” Now he does manage the smile from before, weak but sincere.
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