[there's a long silence-that-isn't in return; the quiet evening wind, Badou breathing in that above-ground air sharplyshallowly, a flint catching a few times, but no light, no fire]
Pr-pretty fuckin' bad. Makes the last time I fucked up look like, a, a fucking...
[he's struggling to focus on the words, to form them in a timely fashion and not stop-start-stutter (he's not good at words, was never good at them, though he still tries so hard)]
[he can't (won't) confess to the actual event a second time; it's already been gibbered incomprehensibly at the superwoman (who's luckily unversed in cryptic bullshit, he thinks, unlike a stupid infohound, unlike a fucking Nails)]
[instead of finishing the sentence, a light sparks in the dark, and a few seconds later, he coughs]
Re: action
Pr-pretty fuckin' bad. Makes the last time I fucked up look like, a, a fucking...
[he's struggling to focus on the words, to form them in a timely fashion and not stop-start-stutter (he's not good at words, was never good at them, though he still tries so hard)]
[he can't (won't) confess to the actual event a second time; it's already been gibbered incomprehensibly at the superwoman (who's luckily unversed in cryptic bullshit, he thinks, unlike a stupid infohound, unlike a fucking Nails)]
[instead of finishing the sentence, a light sparks in the dark, and a few seconds later, he coughs]