[This would be the third time someone has told him that he needs to man up and kill someone he cares about if they go evil. The first time he had been a miserable failure, the second time he hadn't wanted to do it and had been forced to it, and now we're at number three.
Fern is grateful Varian is speaking up, because he's immediately feeling both the encumbering weight of responsibility to accept that offer regardless of whether he actually wants to or not, and the Grass Demon's interest in the prospect of more violence. It makes his head buzz with a whole lot of emotions that don't feel like they're actually his.
He doesn't answer right away, instead reaching up to rub his temples.]
Y... yeah. I don't know. [Varian has every right to be worried, because accepting the offer is on the tip of his tongue.] I'd just screw up again, it wouldn't work. If things go wrong, we're all that, nothing's gonna change that.
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Fern is grateful Varian is speaking up, because he's immediately feeling both the encumbering weight of responsibility to accept that offer regardless of whether he actually wants to or not, and the Grass Demon's interest in the prospect of more violence. It makes his head buzz with a whole lot of emotions that don't feel like they're actually his.
He doesn't answer right away, instead reaching up to rub his temples.]
Y... yeah. I don't know. [Varian has every right to be worried, because accepting the offer is on the tip of his tongue.] I'd just screw up again, it wouldn't work. If things go wrong, we're all that, nothing's gonna change that.