(it feels like one, though anything markus says right now might. connor has to remember to stay calm, answer any questions he brings forward, and comfort him however he'd like to be comforted. whatever that means for him. right now his choice is to stand, so he stands with him in quiet solidarity.

he's done being selfish, of waiting out his own treachery and failure. it's markus' right, butterfly effect be damned.)

We were holed up in an abandoned church, after that... before the peaceful protest the day after.

(a beat, fingers curling into loose fists at his side.)

Everything you're feeling is understandable. There's not much to say after hearing something like this.