As soon as Faraday calls him an idiot, he's turning around so he can argue with that, because he's not being an idiot, he thinks that Faraday is only seeing the short term. Glaring at him, he doesn't know if he's actually going to be able to argue with him because Faraday is persistently stubborn about so many things, and why not this? "Yes," he argues, heatedly. "I do."
"I think that dodging towns and keeping an eye out for trouble is exciting now and interesting, but after months, it becomes awful. I know, I've done it," he says, eyes flashing like a wounded animal who's just seen the thing hunting it again.
That's the trouble, it's not now that he thinks is the problem. It's that he thinks that he's already gone for Faraday in ways he doesn't want to talk about, and if he loses him later, when he's only feeling more, it will hurt like nothing has before.
"Don't call me an idiot," he spits at him. "You say you don't mind now, but what about in six months? A year?" He's never looked that far ahead, never knowing if he'd stay alive, but it seems impossible that Faraday would actually put up with this. "A lifetime?" he challenges. "Someone's going to leave, but it won't be me."
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"I think that dodging towns and keeping an eye out for trouble is exciting now and interesting, but after months, it becomes awful. I know, I've done it," he says, eyes flashing like a wounded animal who's just seen the thing hunting it again.
That's the trouble, it's not now that he thinks is the problem. It's that he thinks that he's already gone for Faraday in ways he doesn't want to talk about, and if he loses him later, when he's only feeling more, it will hurt like nothing has before.
"Don't call me an idiot," he spits at him. "You say you don't mind now, but what about in six months? A year?" He's never looked that far ahead, never knowing if he'd stay alive, but it seems impossible that Faraday would actually put up with this. "A lifetime?" he challenges. "Someone's going to leave, but it won't be me."