[Hey, Shinjiro can be helpful and hate himself at the same time. It's a great talent of his.]
that's still got nothin to do with redemption or atonement you don't make up for wrecking someone's life by saving someone else's those're separate things
[He hadn't expected the direct question. Perhaps he should've, but it just pulls up a defensive, cagey instinct. Shinjiro's heart protecting itself, slamming up those barbed wire walls just as Peter reaches in too close.]
private;
that's none of your business
[At least he ... didn't deny there was someone .... ? Ah.]
no subject
that's still got nothin to do with redemption or atonement
you don't make up for wrecking someone's life by saving someone else's
those're separate things
[He hadn't expected the direct question. Perhaps he should've, but it just pulls up a defensive, cagey instinct. Shinjiro's heart protecting itself, slamming up those barbed wire walls just as Peter reaches in too close.]
private;
that's none of your business
[At least he ... didn't deny there was someone .... ? Ah.]