The Fifteenth Chapter

[solid_courage]

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[frank_hunter]

[is actually just ~passing through~, a towel round his neck cause he was exercising and is therefore pretty sweaty, but sees Snake sitting in a corner, who looks pretty down]

[so he stops]

. . .

[frank_hunter]

Your sense of humor was better once, too.

[solid_courage]

Mm. Really?

[frank_hunter]

Didn't hear me laugh, did you?

Come here.

[solid_courage]

Rhetorical.

[sets his gun aside and wearily approaches]

[frank_hunter]

[gestures him to sit]

[solid_courage]

[and does so!]

...Yes?

[frank_hunter]

[leans in closer]

...Do I need to knock some sense into you?

[solid_courage]

Do you want everyone to listen in again?

[frank_hunter]

That wasn't exactly planned. You could have hit the switch on the communicator just as well.

[solid_courage]

[little too close for comfort now] But I didn't.

[frank_hunter]

How would you know? We've both had a blackout. I don't remember very much.

[solid_courage]

Call it a gut feeling.

[frank_hunter]

[snorts and leans back again]

How convincing.

[solid_courage]

[shrugs] Don't sound so disappointed.

[frank_hunter]

[sigh]

It doesn't matter.

Do you want to?