Jamie sighs as the man lowers his hand. Whatever relief he feels by the man's concession is outweighed by the stress and anxiety of everything else, but at least the guy doesn't seem poised to murder anyone else right now. Mostly he's tired. So tired. He doesn't want to deal with this.]
That...that was a person. We're going to have to bury - [Him? Her? Jamie can't tell from the brief glances he's willing to take of the scorched remains and he sure as hell isn't going to examine them any more closely.]
- look, we can't just leave the body lying around. We'll bury it and mark it and...deal with the rest later. [He's saying it for his own benefit as much as Scorchy McMurderson's, here. Laying out plans helps ground him, even if they're plans for something as onerous as disposing of a corpse.]
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Jamie sighs as the man lowers his hand. Whatever relief he feels by the man's concession is outweighed by the stress and anxiety of everything else, but at least the guy doesn't seem poised to murder anyone else right now. Mostly he's tired. So tired. He doesn't want to deal with this.]
That...that was a person. We're going to have to bury - [Him? Her? Jamie can't tell from the brief glances he's willing to take of the scorched remains and he sure as hell isn't going to examine them any more closely.]
- look, we can't just leave the body lying around. We'll bury it and mark it and...deal with the rest later. [He's saying it for his own benefit as much as Scorchy McMurderson's, here. Laying out plans helps ground him, even if they're plans for something as onerous as disposing of a corpse.]