[ wash is a good listener, to his credit. he just watches her, attentive, quiet, lets her say as much as she wants. he doesn't know what exactly went down, but he can make some educated guesses around what he's hearing, based on what he saw. south going after tex, and her brother stepping in. no talking, just gunfire. maybe he did see it as the best way -- if he's honest, south never struck wash as someone who might want to listen to reason when she's angry, when she's driven -- but still. that'll have some effects that aren't physical.

though maybe he shouldn't be thinking that much about north shooting his own sister, given that wash himself kind of did a lot worse than "intentionally injure for the sake of incapacitating". ]

Missile pod probably wasn't enough, was it? [ wryly, quietly. ] None of us were ever that great at communicating, I guess.

[ some better than others, but that doesn't say that much. he was never that close to north or south in freelancer, not enough to ever see any cracks in their relationship, save what he might have heard from connie or the others. but he was a lot more naive back then, in general. ]

I just got bits and pieces what went down, all through various filters. I figured -- hoped, maybe -- that you two had made it out together somewhere.