[If they're being honest - which he is, for a moment, because he has a weird sense of clarity now that he's no longer feeling such a suffocating weight of pain on his body. It'll creep back in and drag him back into what he was a moment ago, but until then he's just, indeed, softer around the edges. Which is something he'll regret showing to her later, because she's never gonna let it go - he knows her type - but hey.]
Adamantium. Had it on my bones for longer than some people have been alive.
[Lifting a hand, like he's calming something premature before it happens:]
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[If they're being honest - which he is, for a moment, because he has a weird sense of clarity now that he's no longer feeling such a suffocating weight of pain on his body. It'll creep back in and drag him back into what he was a moment ago, but until then he's just, indeed, softer around the edges. Which is something he'll regret showing to her later, because she's never gonna let it go - he knows her type - but hey.]
Adamantium. Had it on my bones for longer than some people have been alive.
[Lifting a hand, like he's calming something premature before it happens:]
I know it's killing me. It already did.