[ When the notification pops up on his screen, when he unlocks his device to see what it is, he stares at it for a few seconds that feel like lifetimes.
And in a split second, he's spurred into sudden motion, fumbling a little with the device in his haste, only to freeze again when he's not entirely sure how to respond.
He knows how he wants to respond, anyway. "Where are you?" "Are you okay?" "How have you been?" A thousand different questions to ask after her well-being. He knows Nebula and Gamora have been corresponding in their own way, but he hasn't tried to pry into their conversations. (Because he knows with absolutely certainty that he'd start asking some absolutely juvenile shir, like, "Did she say anything about me?" which would lead Nebula to punching him. Probably.)
At length, he decides to just— answer the question in front of him. It has the benefit of staying on the topic and keeps him from making a complete fool of himself. ]
everyone's been saying this place doesn't have its own music
[ After he found the contents of his safety deposit box, multiple people had told him now novel it was that he had found a casette tape player, that he had actual music, and how the "welcome party," such as it was, that had been thrown last month was eerily silent without any music to overwrite the awkward silence. ]
@star.lord
And in a split second, he's spurred into sudden motion, fumbling a little with the device in his haste, only to freeze again when he's not entirely sure how to respond.
He knows how he wants to respond, anyway. "Where are you?" "Are you okay?" "How have you been?" A thousand different questions to ask after her well-being. He knows Nebula and Gamora have been corresponding in their own way, but he hasn't tried to pry into their conversations. (Because he knows with absolutely certainty that he'd start asking some absolutely juvenile shir, like, "Did she say anything about me?" which would lead Nebula to punching him. Probably.)
At length, he decides to just— answer the question in front of him. It has the benefit of staying on the topic and keeps him from making a complete fool of himself. ]
everyone's been saying this place doesn't have its own music
[ After he found the contents of his safety deposit box, multiple people had told him now novel it was that he had found a casette tape player, that he had actual music, and how the "welcome party," such as it was, that had been thrown last month was eerily silent without any music to overwrite the awkward silence. ]
you found something?