If he doesn't watch his expression at times like this, he ends up looking like he's glowering. He gets shit for the bitch face thing those times the Chargers are around to see it; weird to be sort of glad they're not around right now, that the mission needed to be a tiny one, and be missing them at the same time.
No reason to watch his expression now, anyway. Good way to get his point across.
"We keep going an hour or two after sunset and we'll find a spot closer to the ruin." His voice is brisk, little clipped, but businesslike still, as long as you don't have too strict a definition for the word. Just letting the guy know what the situation is. "Got to give it the once over bright and early so we can get you in there. That last bunch of assholes was too close, and they've got the numbers; going to catch us if we drag this out too long."
Not giving orders, not arguing about being hurt. Not arguing about anything. Just laying out the facts. Which is what he's trying for, because probably he should be patient with the guy. He knows how healers are. Singleminded. That's why they do the stuff they do, and he admires that, he does. Gets in the way of the bigger picture sometimes, though. If he's lucky, this one's going to see that. Hard to tell, since he hasn't talked to the guy that much before. Shitty time to have to feel someone out, with this much of his mind trying to wrap itself around the other stuff. All he can do is try, and hope he ended up with one of the ones who knows how to cooperate so he doesn't have to see how far his patience can stretch out.
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No reason to watch his expression now, anyway. Good way to get his point across.
"We keep going an hour or two after sunset and we'll find a spot closer to the ruin." His voice is brisk, little clipped, but businesslike still, as long as you don't have too strict a definition for the word. Just letting the guy know what the situation is. "Got to give it the once over bright and early so we can get you in there. That last bunch of assholes was too close, and they've got the numbers; going to catch us if we drag this out too long."
Not giving orders, not arguing about being hurt. Not arguing about anything. Just laying out the facts. Which is what he's trying for, because probably he should be patient with the guy. He knows how healers are. Singleminded. That's why they do the stuff they do, and he admires that, he does. Gets in the way of the bigger picture sometimes, though. If he's lucky, this one's going to see that. Hard to tell, since he hasn't talked to the guy that much before. Shitty time to have to feel someone out, with this much of his mind trying to wrap itself around the other stuff. All he can do is try, and hope he ended up with one of the ones who knows how to cooperate so he doesn't have to see how far his patience can stretch out.