[Eugene's muscles remember this - pressure up under his tricep, determined grip to his wrist, and manoeuvring into his center of gravity that takes the weight off of the metal leg and puts it onto steady shoulders.
His muscles remember, but he's to the front door before he remembers, like waking up from a dream, that the last time he leaned on anyone like this, the last time anyone just moved under his arm and hefted the work of moving him onto himself like it was the only natural thing in the world-
- that was with Jack.
It means he's used to moving this way, at least. It means he can surrender to movement, and away from thought. And the longer he walks, the more he starts shivering, hard, irregular waves that send his teeth rattling together.]
Yeah. My bartering is not going to be great right now.
[He can tell that much, at least, the same way he can tell when he's drunk.]
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His muscles remember, but he's to the front door before he remembers, like waking up from a dream, that the last time he leaned on anyone like this, the last time anyone just moved under his arm and hefted the work of moving him onto himself like it was the only natural thing in the world-
- that was with Jack.
It means he's used to moving this way, at least. It means he can surrender to movement, and away from thought. And the longer he walks, the more he starts shivering, hard, irregular waves that send his teeth rattling together.]
Yeah. My bartering is not going to be great right now.
[He can tell that much, at least, the same way he can tell when he's drunk.]