[ Ah, so it is that friend. Tim does misinterpret the situation, but not in the way Billy’s concerned about. The comment about losing people, being a friend and teammate - Tim’s own experiences cloud his judgment, and he lands on Billy Kaplan-Altman being due to meet an unfortunate fate or maybe returning from one. It eats away some of the suspicion. ]
No, no one likes losing people. It’s always hard.
[ A mental string of red yarn goes from Billy to Loki to David Alleyne. Best not to mentally dwell on losing people. Does Billy know Bart Allen as well? Their circles are becoming a Venn diagram. ]
It’s nice to properly meet you. I didn’t mean to be rude. I wasn’t expecting to bump into anyone else I knew here, and, when you said you knew Loki and my name, it was like my adopted first-cousin-once-removed’s girlfriend spotting me in the supermarket and asking how the new job is going. Like, it’s good, but how do you even know that?
[ He wants to find an angle to ask what Loki’s said about him, but David’s warned him off explicitly trying to quantify Loki. Billy seems chatty, and Tim doesn’t want him to tell Loki that he’s been prodding for information. ]
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No, no one likes losing people. It’s always hard.
[ A mental string of red yarn goes from Billy to Loki to David Alleyne. Best not to mentally dwell on losing people. Does Billy know Bart Allen as well? Their circles are becoming a Venn diagram. ]
It’s nice to properly meet you. I didn’t mean to be rude. I wasn’t expecting to bump into anyone else I knew here, and, when you said you knew Loki and my name, it was like my adopted first-cousin-once-removed’s girlfriend spotting me in the supermarket and asking how the new job is going. Like, it’s good, but how do you even know that?
[ He wants to find an angle to ask what Loki’s said about him, but David’s warned him off explicitly trying to quantify Loki. Billy seems chatty, and Tim doesn’t want him to tell Loki that he’s been prodding for information. ]