Cool update: He's going to die upright and being strangled by alien tentacles instead. This cool update doesn't improve matters much.
While Rich's expression is plaintive, Grif's is hard, marshaling a lifetime of well-tended bitterness. The facade breaks around the eyes though. The fear is too open. There are tears in the corners. This is the best Grif can do.
"Sorry," he chokes. "But I can't let you down."
The Many-Angled-Ones overplayed their hand. Grif is afraid of pain, Grif is afraid of death, Grif is afraid of failing the multiverse, and Grif might even be afraid of how he'll be remembered, but disappointing Rich?
He knows what Rich thinks of him beyond anything the monsters can possibly twist, and Rich thinks his stubbornness is great.
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While Rich's expression is plaintive, Grif's is hard, marshaling a lifetime of well-tended bitterness. The facade breaks around the eyes though. The fear is too open. There are tears in the corners. This is the best Grif can do.
"Sorry," he chokes. "But I can't let you down."
The Many-Angled-Ones overplayed their hand. Grif is afraid of pain, Grif is afraid of death, Grif is afraid of failing the multiverse, and Grif might even be afraid of how he'll be remembered, but disappointing Rich?
He knows what Rich thinks of him beyond anything the monsters can possibly twist, and Rich thinks his stubbornness is great.