[Phoenix is about to name at least one time Maya has done just that, but she quickly tells him to eat, as if she knows exactly what he was going to say.
So he does eat up, finding that Maya's cooking has vastly improved. He actually enjoys this.]
Hey, hey, calm down! I don't wanna choke!
[He says that with his mouth partially full, remembering all the times his mother had told him to chew with his mouth closed, and other various parental tidbits. It hurts to think of that, in fact, knowing that his mother is in a different world. He may never see her again.
He has to shove that out of his mind, then! He can't think about that. He can use it to fuel his need to get out of here, though!
He takes a few more hasty bites to try and quash those memories, even as they are interspersed with flashes of remembering himself collapsing to the ground, his head splitting open. Aunamee in his crystalline helmet, standing over him with that gun...]
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So he does eat up, finding that Maya's cooking has vastly improved. He actually enjoys this.]
Hey, hey, calm down! I don't wanna choke!
[He says that with his mouth partially full, remembering all the times his mother had told him to chew with his mouth closed, and other various parental tidbits. It hurts to think of that, in fact, knowing that his mother is in a different world. He may never see her again.
He has to shove that out of his mind, then! He can't think about that. He can use it to fuel his need to get out of here, though!
He takes a few more hasty bites to try and quash those memories, even as they are interspersed with flashes of remembering himself collapsing to the ground, his head splitting open. Aunamee in his crystalline helmet, standing over him with that gun...]