[ The fact that he was beginning to talk nonsense certainly didn't make it any less obvious. Was he shushing Oswald or himself? Probably himself. It would take a lot more than that to make Oswald be quiet and Ed knew it. He exhaled a small breath of relief that the apology was so easily accepted. Another thing he wasn't convinced he deserved. There was an urge to attempt to reassure him, but engaging his mind was likely going to be more beneficial than any sort of excessive attempt at verbal comfort for the time being.
The riddle made him go quiet in thought. The first possible answer came almost immediately, but surely it was a result of much too wishful thinking and too much time indulging fantasies to be the correct or appropriate answer. Not every riddle between them was going to have something about hearts as the answer. What else ran when a person stopped? ] ...blood? [ It was situationally appropriate, anyway. Ed could be dark humored sometimes. ]
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The riddle made him go quiet in thought. The first possible answer came almost immediately, but surely it was a result of much too wishful thinking and too much time indulging fantasies to be the correct or appropriate answer. Not every riddle between them was going to have something about hearts as the answer. What else ran when a person stopped? ] ...blood? [ It was situationally appropriate, anyway. Ed could be dark humored sometimes. ]