[ dirty as vash's coat may be, cassian certainly doesn't complain. it's hard not to see the utility of protecting his bare skin from the snow, and vash is still well-covered. cassian might have protested otherwise; or maybe not, given how much worse off than vash he clearly is. his pain levels are — bad. his breathing is labored. his expression is extremely Innocent as vash answers him with much more huffy anger than he would've expected of a practical question, shooting him an aggrieved look. at least the other man does know to do that if worst comes to worst, though cassian doesn't really expect it to get that far.
cassian doesn't have reason to expect it to get that far. after all: his wounds did not, strictly speaking, kill him the first time around.
one, two, three — it does hurt like hell when vash stands, a sharp sound slipping past even his tight jaw, hands at vash's front reflexively clenching into fists. he presses his forehead into vash's back for a long, long moment; doesn't raise his head until they start moving, and the inevitable jostling from walking becomes — repetitive. bearable, if nothing else.
and it's only after that, that he finally says, ]
So it wasn't just him you were determined to save. [ the young man; the blighted man. ] What is it, everyone?
[ how quickly vash had turned from DON'T KILL ANYONE to DON'T TALK ABOUT DYING, for all ways he's been irritated with cassian this entire interaction. ]
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cassian doesn't have reason to expect it to get that far. after all: his wounds did not, strictly speaking, kill him the first time around.
one, two, three — it does hurt like hell when vash stands, a sharp sound slipping past even his tight jaw, hands at vash's front reflexively clenching into fists. he presses his forehead into vash's back for a long, long moment; doesn't raise his head until they start moving, and the inevitable jostling from walking becomes — repetitive. bearable, if nothing else.
and it's only after that, that he finally says, ]
So it wasn't just him you were determined to save. [ the young man; the blighted man. ] What is it, everyone?
[ how quickly vash had turned from DON'T KILL ANYONE to DON'T TALK ABOUT DYING, for all ways he's been irritated with cassian this entire interaction. ]