[ except he totally is, because it's mark, dammit, it's his brother, and of all people to show up here, somehow he hadn't expected --
miles lets that sentence finish on an exhale and he drops his gaze to avert it even as his brow knits, but his gaze keeps flicking back up to mark's face. he can't help it. he's so frigging tired this might be a hallucination, although miles's nightmares around mark usually involve inhabiting his body. well, there's still time.
it's the doubt and the prolonged exhaustion that robs miles of his usual cool in situations like these, and miles tries checking mark's name against his mental directory of the moira and the new recruits, and realizes he's barely even made a dent in the new personnel files. no way to verify one way or the other. ]
I didn't see -- did you come in with the last wave?
[ miles's hand tightens around the handle of his coffee mug, breath short. if this is a hallucination, he really doesn't want to stick around to see it through. but if it's not... ]
i sure did
[ except he totally is, because it's mark, dammit, it's his brother, and of all people to show up here, somehow he hadn't expected --
miles lets that sentence finish on an exhale and he drops his gaze to avert it even as his brow knits, but his gaze keeps flicking back up to mark's face. he can't help it. he's so frigging tired this might be a hallucination, although miles's nightmares around mark usually involve inhabiting his body. well, there's still time.
it's the doubt and the prolonged exhaustion that robs miles of his usual cool in situations like these, and miles tries checking mark's name against his mental directory of the moira and the new recruits, and realizes he's barely even made a dent in the new personnel files. no way to verify one way or the other. ]
I didn't see -- did you come in with the last wave?
[ miles's hand tightens around the handle of his coffee mug, breath short. if this is a hallucination, he really doesn't want to stick around to see it through. but if it's not... ]