Did something happen to him. God. Obviously he knows what she's asking, but it still feels like an incredibly loaded question. His head still feels like it's ringing from Yelena's tender touch, after all.
"Nothing that I remember. Hopefully I didn't have a heart attack in my sleep. Always figured I'd go out in a much louder, way stupider way." Always figured he'd die on the job, and somehow, decades later, he's still here. Someone up there likes him, maybe a little too much.
Besides. Who knows if it's different for someone whose soul was made a sacrifice?
"I feel pretty alive. So do you." And she shouldn't. It doesn't surprise him that she thinks she's from before death, because it was instantaneous. She probably didn't even feel the impact, didn't have time to register anything like that. He couldn't get her body--
Under the circumstances, it's impossible to steer his thoughts from Vormir, but what he needs to focus on is right in front of him. She's warm. Alive for whatever that means here and now.
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"Nothing that I remember. Hopefully I didn't have a heart attack in my sleep. Always figured I'd go out in a much louder, way stupider way." Always figured he'd die on the job, and somehow, decades later, he's still here. Someone up there likes him, maybe a little too much.
Besides. Who knows if it's different for someone whose soul was made a sacrifice?
"I feel pretty alive. So do you." And she shouldn't. It doesn't surprise him that she thinks she's from before death, because it was instantaneous. She probably didn't even feel the impact, didn't have time to register anything like that. He couldn't get her body--
Under the circumstances, it's impossible to steer his thoughts from Vormir, but what he needs to focus on is right in front of him. She's warm. Alive for whatever that means here and now.