[ Except no - Sam'd cared about Nyx, a hell of a lot, but Nyx wasn't as closely wound in as Steve was.
He might have been, though, but that's not something Sam wants to think about. There's no use living in what ifs. ]
(I tried to shield her from the rest of the Nest. I'm better at it now than I was with Zhukov, but, uh. Our minds got up close and personal there for a bit, I guess.)
[ He needs to train it more, maybe, this ability he's got to make the rest of the Nest go quiet at least for a little while - but it's hard to do that when he knows how close he gets with anyone he uses it with. ]
[That's his concern here. That's all he's worried about right now. He'd only caught the edges of Annie's loss, the trails of her grief, but that had been more than enough to make him shut the connection down as tightly as possible.]
[For someone who does what Sam can do...]
[He can't imagine how bad it was. If he's comparing it to what happened with Zhukov.]
[Shiro's feet are moving. He'll trust whichever answer Sam gives, but here in the moment, he just wants to be sure. Needs to be sure.]
(I'm...) [ His hesitation isn't because he doesn't want to tell Shiro how he is, it's more because... honestly, he's not really sure.
It's not really bad like it'd been with Zhukov, or the time on Waypoint when fighting the programming with Bucky had ripped his mind to shreds, it'd just been... intense. ]
(I'm not hurt. It's just a lot, sometimes. And other times I think I'm way more used to all this than I ever thought I'd be.)
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[ Except no - Sam'd cared about Nyx, a hell of a lot, but Nyx wasn't as closely wound in as Steve was.
He might have been, though, but that's not something Sam wants to think about. There's no use living in what ifs. ]
( I tried to shield her from the rest of the Nest. I'm better at it now than I was with Zhukov, but, uh. Our minds got up close and personal there for a bit, I guess. )
[ He needs to train it more, maybe, this ability he's got to make the rest of the Nest go quiet at least for a little while - but it's hard to do that when he knows how close he gets with anyone he uses it with. ]
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[That's his concern here. That's all he's worried about right now. He'd only caught the edges of Annie's loss, the trails of her grief, but that had been more than enough to make him shut the connection down as tightly as possible.]
[For someone who does what Sam can do...]
[He can't imagine how bad it was. If he's comparing it to what happened with Zhukov.]
[Shiro's feet are moving. He'll trust whichever answer Sam gives, but here in the moment, he just wants to be sure. Needs to be sure.]
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It's not really bad like it'd been with Zhukov, or the time on Waypoint when fighting the programming with Bucky had ripped his mind to shreds, it'd just been... intense. ]
( I'm not hurt. It's just a lot, sometimes. And other times I think I'm way more used to all this than I ever thought I'd be. )
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[He can accept 'not hurt'. As much as it still makes him want to kick down the door, so to speak, he can accept it.]
[The urge to go to him is still very, very strong, though.]
(Do you need anything?)