[The inflection of that response is particularly flat.
He shakes his head at her warning, however. In a way, he's happy she would even make such a consideration, that she seems to worry in her own way. But it wasn't necessary. If they continued to be fed in the intervals they were, he would survive fine with limited rations.]
You must eat more than a normal person to continue to exist, yes? I will share with you then.
[They are comrades in this, stuck in the same terrible situation. It seems the least he could do.
He takes a moment to answer the question, seeming to lack the proper words.] As well as I can. [He exhales in a short sigh.] It is the... not knowing that troubles me. Why they would even bother to capture and hold us at all.
[He had seen what had happened to Xici. He doesn't understand why they would waste resources (if that's what you could call their prison and their rations) on keeping enemies alive. Were they hostages? Were they awaiting some other decision to be made? These are the questions that keep rattling around in his head, making it even more difficult to sleep.]
no subject
[The inflection of that response is particularly flat.
He shakes his head at her warning, however. In a way, he's happy she would even make such a consideration, that she seems to worry in her own way. But it wasn't necessary. If they continued to be fed in the intervals they were, he would survive fine with limited rations.]
You must eat more than a normal person to continue to exist, yes? I will share with you then.
[They are comrades in this, stuck in the same terrible situation. It seems the least he could do.
He takes a moment to answer the question, seeming to lack the proper words.] As well as I can. [He exhales in a short sigh.] It is the... not knowing that troubles me. Why they would even bother to capture and hold us at all.
[He had seen what had happened to Xici. He doesn't understand why they would waste resources (if that's what you could call their prison and their rations) on keeping enemies alive. Were they hostages? Were they awaiting some other decision to be made? These are the questions that keep rattling around in his head, making it even more difficult to sleep.]