[ This is going from bad to worse, and Cisco doesn't know how to stop the momentum. Normally, if this were a conversation anywhere else, he'd find some excuse to run off - an appointment he forgot, an experiment that needed checking, whatever. But he isn't about to leave Eddie alone in this hospital, to stew and brood, just because he'd managed to stick his foot in his mouth completely.
So he sits there feeling guilty and awkward and uncertain, as Eddie's shoulders slump and he looks thoroughly low-spirited. Which was the opposite of what Cisco had been trying to do. He'd wanted to make Eddie feel less bad for asking for the wrong person. But good intentions had led him down a pretty shitty path.
Cisco doesn't respond at first, torn between shutting the conversation down and thinking that Eddie deserves a response. After a moment of awkward silence, he sighs shortly, and says: ]
Okay, I didn't- I- this conversation has taken a turn that I really didn't mean it to and now I feel like I should've stayed in my lane 'cause all this is none of my business.
[ But the fact that Eddie doesn't even know what he'd been referring to is a pretty bad sign. If he and Taako haven't talked about this by now... well, he deserves to know, and Cisco wouldn't be a very good friend at all if he refused to tell him. ]
Well... he's an elf, right? They don't age at the same rate humans do. Like, at all. He's like 200 years old or whatever, and when he's 250 he'll probably look almost exactly the same, but you and me will be, like, old dudes. With walkers and shit.
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So he sits there feeling guilty and awkward and uncertain, as Eddie's shoulders slump and he looks thoroughly low-spirited. Which was the opposite of what Cisco had been trying to do. He'd wanted to make Eddie feel less bad for asking for the wrong person. But good intentions had led him down a pretty shitty path.
Cisco doesn't respond at first, torn between shutting the conversation down and thinking that Eddie deserves a response. After a moment of awkward silence, he sighs shortly, and says: ]
Okay, I didn't- I- this conversation has taken a turn that I really didn't mean it to and now I feel like I should've stayed in my lane 'cause all this is none of my business.
[ But the fact that Eddie doesn't even know what he'd been referring to is a pretty bad sign. If he and Taako haven't talked about this by now... well, he deserves to know, and Cisco wouldn't be a very good friend at all if he refused to tell him. ]
Well... he's an elf, right? They don't age at the same rate humans do. Like, at all. He's like 200 years old or whatever, and when he's 250 he'll probably look almost exactly the same, but you and me will be, like, old dudes. With walkers and shit.
[ There's just no way of sugar-coating that. ]