Yeah, I'm pretty sure my family's bunker started off as an old well or an abandoned silver mine or something. We didn't never have the equipment handy to do excavating on our own.
[Dan feels his throat tighten, and he takes a moment to compose himself by focusing on the sewing, focusing on keeping his hands from shaking. So often, he thinks he's got some sort of hook in his back, tying him to the past, and if he thinks about old beloved things too much, that hook gets yanked a little - but since he can't actually go backwards, all it does it tear him up. Thinking of home is just yanking that hook until he's nothing but bloody.
Better to focus on someone else.]
That's generous and good of you, offering up your home like that. Someone's got to do it. Folks don't realize how necessary it is until they need it. [The Sartoris bunker never kept them safe. Dan knows there's no point in saying that. If Branch finds some comfort in a bunker that worked, why should Dan offer a counterpoint in one that failed?] Who's your friend?
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[Dan feels his throat tighten, and he takes a moment to compose himself by focusing on the sewing, focusing on keeping his hands from shaking. So often, he thinks he's got some sort of hook in his back, tying him to the past, and if he thinks about old beloved things too much, that hook gets yanked a little - but since he can't actually go backwards, all it does it tear him up. Thinking of home is just yanking that hook until he's nothing but bloody.
Better to focus on someone else.]
That's generous and good of you, offering up your home like that. Someone's got to do it. Folks don't realize how necessary it is until they need it. [The Sartoris bunker never kept them safe. Dan knows there's no point in saying that. If Branch finds some comfort in a bunker that worked, why should Dan offer a counterpoint in one that failed?] Who's your friend?