[ Shinn starts sitting and talking before thinking, self-righteously cranky. ]
Yeah, train like everything will break and command won't give a --
[ And that's when his mind catches up with his mouth. He freezes halfway between standing and sitting, eyes very wide and mouth open mid-sentence. It's still hard not to get wound tight by the sight of Cagalli Yula Attha, even if she's one of Compass's founders even if he was wrong about Orb even if she's the commander's twin who gets to rib him (heresy?!) (also still confusing?!). After a moment, he starts talking again, but his body language is still completely frozen, and every word comes out like it's being forced through a rock grinder. ]
arrival!!!
Yeah, train like everything will break and command won't give a --
[ And that's when his mind catches up with his mouth. He freezes halfway between standing and sitting, eyes very wide and mouth open mid-sentence. It's still hard not to get wound tight by the sight of Cagalli Yula Attha, even if she's one of Compass's founders even if he was wrong about Orb even if she's the commander's twin who gets to rib him (heresy?!) (also still confusing?!). After a moment, he starts talking again, but his body language is still completely frozen, and every word comes out like it's being forced through a rock grinder. ]
-- won't care, representative.