[ It's Kieran's insistence on how fine he is that makes Reynir worry the most. He knows that sort of person - Onni is that sort of person, and Sigrun too in her own way. He's working too hard to convince Reynir, like he has to convince himself. And besides how could he be totally fine? Between the last time Reynir had seen him and now, he's gone blind!
Reynir knows there are fevers that can do this, as well as any number of accidental circumstances - fires and head trauma and who knows what else. It doesn't even enter into his mind that someone else might have done this to Kieran, or the cruelty and violence of it. ]
I will, I will help at the ranch.
[ He doesn't say any more than that, because he's made his mind up already and he isn't going to be talked out of it. Reynir packs up some of the little spiced cookies that Onni had baked the night before, tucks Anne under his arm, and makes his way to the medbay. Kieran needs a friend right now and Reynir hopes he has other ones but there is no such thing as too many friends. There just isn't!
It's easy enough to ask one of the robots which way he needs to go to find Kieran, and about twenty minutes after the end of their call, he is saying from nearby Kieran's bed. ]
Kieran? It's Reynir, I-
[ But before he can explain himself Anne decides this is time for him to chime in and say hello, too, with an excited little bleat. Anne, it turns out, loves Kieran. He even starts wriggling in Reynir's arm, wanting to go over to the man. Reynir's voice is a bit closer again when he says, a hint apologetic, a hint defiant: ]
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Reynir knows there are fevers that can do this, as well as any number of accidental circumstances - fires and head trauma and who knows what else. It doesn't even enter into his mind that someone else might have done this to Kieran, or the cruelty and violence of it. ]
I will, I will help at the ranch.
[ He doesn't say any more than that, because he's made his mind up already and he isn't going to be talked out of it. Reynir packs up some of the little spiced cookies that Onni had baked the night before, tucks Anne under his arm, and makes his way to the medbay. Kieran needs a friend right now and Reynir hopes he has other ones but there is no such thing as too many friends. There just isn't!
It's easy enough to ask one of the robots which way he needs to go to find Kieran, and about twenty minutes after the end of their call, he is saying from nearby Kieran's bed. ]
Kieran? It's Reynir, I-
[ But before he can explain himself Anne decides this is time for him to chime in and say hello, too, with an excited little bleat. Anne, it turns out, loves Kieran. He even starts wriggling in Reynir's arm, wanting to go over to the man. Reynir's voice is a bit closer again when he says, a hint apologetic, a hint defiant: ]
Anne wanted to come visit you.