[All Shiro can muster is a wary hum of acknowledgement. He's still not comfortable with people seeing this arm. Deerington absolutely did a number on that kind of confidence. Sure, this is another Sleeper, this is a man who'd offered to help. But, outside the core group of family, of close friends, the uneasiness surfaces.]
[Shiro's own 'tech guy' hadn't been able to find a problem. Not that he would ever hold that against Hunk - it likely wasn't even a tech issue in the first place. That wouldn't surprise him.]
[What does surprise him is pain.]
[The shock - hah hah - of it has him jerk where he's sitting, startled, shouting. It doesn't last, of course, but when you're not expecting that - you can't not react. For a split second, he looks down at the hand, as if it's suddenly sparked to life of its own accord. But nothing.]
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[Shiro's own 'tech guy' hadn't been able to find a problem. Not that he would ever hold that against Hunk - it likely wasn't even a tech issue in the first place. That wouldn't surprise him.]
[What does surprise him is pain.]
[The shock - hah hah - of it has him jerk where he's sitting, startled, shouting. It doesn't last, of course, but when you're not expecting that - you can't not react. For a split second, he looks down at the hand, as if it's suddenly sparked to life of its own accord. But nothing.]
What -
What did you do?