"I know you will," his reassurance is soft in response to her protest, complete faith in her. Even if he's not, really, sure there's anything to figure out. At some point they'll have to find a way to get the rest of the wiring out of him - somehow. He's not looking forward to that simply because he's fairly sure it will hurt -
and that what had been a stump before, at least part of his lot arm, will be even less once they find a way to get the metal that had eaten him up to his shoulder off.
He tries not to think about that - but its hard. How much more of his body is he going to lose to the Galra? How little of him is going to be left by the time its all done....
He knows his team, his friends, will do everything they can though and frankly, he's seen both Hunk and Pidge work miracles with alien tech and programming. Even Coran has done some impressive things that he's pretty sure shouldn't be in the realm of physics. They've got allies and they're on their way back to an Earth that has a great deal more advanced tech knowledge than it did when they left thanks to Katie's father. He's not giving up hope yet.
But he's never seen anything like Haggar's arm. Not even amoung the Okari.
His face softens as she works over her question, glad of an excuse to think of someone other than himself.
"You mean have I stopped trying to open peanut butter jars before I realize its not there yet?" Probably a little too jovial. He's aware his humor isn't necessarily appreciated when it goes dark. So he shakes his head. "Phantom pain. I keep thinking its still there, trying to use it. I can feel the impulses going out but since there's nothing to respond its - weird. Like double vision except with body sensations? The shoulder doesn't respond though." He tries but there's no movement on one side while his human shoulder shrugs on the other side. "I can't roll the shoulder or lift or sink it. I can feel it trying but there's no feed back."
His human hand moves, shifts just a little to hold his palm up on his thigh and his voice softens some more.
"Katie - you don't have to do this right now. We've got plenty of time and nothing's going to change with it. It's all right."
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and that what had been a stump before, at least part of his lot arm, will be even less once they find a way to get the metal that had eaten him up to his shoulder off.
He tries not to think about that - but its hard. How much more of his body is he going to lose to the Galra? How little of him is going to be left by the time its all done....
He knows his team, his friends, will do everything they can though and frankly, he's seen both Hunk and Pidge work miracles with alien tech and programming. Even Coran has done some impressive things that he's pretty sure shouldn't be in the realm of physics. They've got allies and they're on their way back to an Earth that has a great deal more advanced tech knowledge than it did when they left thanks to Katie's father. He's not giving up hope yet.
But he's never seen anything like Haggar's arm. Not even amoung the Okari.
His face softens as she works over her question, glad of an excuse to think of someone other than himself.
"You mean have I stopped trying to open peanut butter jars before I realize its not there yet?" Probably a little too jovial. He's aware his humor isn't necessarily appreciated when it goes dark. So he shakes his head. "Phantom pain. I keep thinking its still there, trying to use it. I can feel the impulses going out but since there's nothing to respond its - weird. Like double vision except with body sensations? The shoulder doesn't respond though." He tries but there's no movement on one side while his human shoulder shrugs on the other side. "I can't roll the shoulder or lift or sink it. I can feel it trying but there's no feed back."
His human hand moves, shifts just a little to hold his palm up on his thigh and his voice softens some more.
"Katie - you don't have to do this right now. We've got plenty of time and nothing's going to change with it. It's all right."