[...Ouch. Billy doesn't know how to respond to that- the war is such a heavy topic, emotionally, politically, logically, the whole shebang. And truth be told, he's always felt lost in the middle of the it, a teenager in way over his head. He'd just wanted to fight crime, to help people, and he'd ended up in the Cube, and that horrible prison for it... and he can't imagine what it must've been like to be in her shoes in the middle of all that.
He stays silent this time, nodding awkwardly and lifting a hand to unconsciously scratch at his ear. Sometimes it's just better to keep your mouth shut- even as outspoken a person as him knows that.]
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He stays silent this time, nodding awkwardly and lifting a hand to unconsciously scratch at his ear. Sometimes it's just better to keep your mouth shut- even as outspoken a person as him knows that.]