⤷ ✰ @70th ✰ gets a GALE STARTER ❐ .*

Gale's one of those people who find no particular problem in thrusting conversation upon those within arm's length. It's a good way to pass time and siphon out the STRESS from all that's going on, so why not let the one beside him - that is to say, Annie at the moment - in on it? It might wind up COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, but there's only one way to know whether that'll be the case or not.

" You know, the fact that you're still intact after everything you've been through - that says something. " He lets the first thing that crosses his mind flow out of him with sincere RESPECT, casually looking ahead as he does. " Your resilience is something to look up to. "