[Now he was sure someone was fucking with him. This can't be real, that's all he kept thinking to himself, but here was more proof that the castle could warp time. Oh, Christ, something had brought her back to them from the exact moment before she'd been taken from them. That couldn't just be a coincidence.
He knows. He knows exactly what she remembers last, not just from her words alone but from the way she's looking at him, from her scattering away as soon as he ran into the room. He knows most of all because she's pulling the same shit she pulled when she first told him to leave.
Make this easy for me.
He comes out of his shocked daze slowly, his features hardening up in turn. Joel takes a step closer and chokes out the start of a response that sounds furious and hurt all at once:] We did not--
We did not just go through this, Tess. I did not just go through this. [And he stalks forward, takes a few steps closer to her. He's not sure what he's even gonna do if he reaches her but he can't seem to stop.] You've been gone a long time.
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He knows. He knows exactly what she remembers last, not just from her words alone but from the way she's looking at him, from her scattering away as soon as he ran into the room. He knows most of all because she's pulling the same shit she pulled when she first told him to leave.
Make this easy for me.
He comes out of his shocked daze slowly, his features hardening up in turn. Joel takes a step closer and chokes out the start of a response that sounds furious and hurt all at once:] We did not--
We did not just go through this, Tess. I did not just go through this. [And he stalks forward, takes a few steps closer to her. He's not sure what he's even gonna do if he reaches her but he can't seem to stop.] You've been gone a long time.