[The way Vicious responds is honestly all Orwin really wants anyway. The less they linger on the subject, the better. There's no way for Orwin to express in words how Vicious saved his life in more ways than one that horrible night, but he's satisfied enough that Vicious at least knows the gist of things now.
He scratches at the back of his head as he searches his memories once again.]
Just fallin' asleep, really. We were on the run after everything that happened in the city, so it was a lotta campin' out in the woods. I figured I'd be havin' nightmares after all that, but this one was...way too realistic. I walked down a dark path, and in that darkness I saw our world was fallin' apart. There was nothing anyone could do about it.
[He figures that part's way more relevant to Vicious than the other things he experienced in that nightmare. Reliving his worst moments, all of his failures, the look in Aura's eyes when she saw what he had done...]
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[The way Vicious responds is honestly all Orwin really wants anyway. The less they linger on the subject, the better. There's no way for Orwin to express in words how Vicious saved his life in more ways than one that horrible night, but he's satisfied enough that Vicious at least knows the gist of things now.
He scratches at the back of his head as he searches his memories once again.]
Just fallin' asleep, really. We were on the run after everything that happened in the city, so it was a lotta campin' out in the woods. I figured I'd be havin' nightmares after all that, but this one was...way too realistic. I walked down a dark path, and in that darkness I saw our world was fallin' apart. There was nothing anyone could do about it.
[He figures that part's way more relevant to Vicious than the other things he experienced in that nightmare. Reliving his worst moments, all of his failures, the look in Aura's eyes when she saw what he had done...]