[Huffing out a breath that might well be a voiceless laugh, 9S shakes his head]
I doubt you could be selfish if you tried.
[Truly, it's not as though he asked him for anything but his own thoughts. He wishes he had a more cohesive answer for him than something like that, but he's never evaluated how important Jude is on some scale, only acknowledged that he is important. That he matters.
All of the humans around him do, but the ones he's gotten to know have their own unique, personal value to him. And that, without question, includes the boy next to him]
But...why something like that?
[Surely Jude doesn't doubt that he matters to others. Kind as he is, he's got to have a lot of friends around here]
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I doubt you could be selfish if you tried.
[Truly, it's not as though he asked him for anything but his own thoughts. He wishes he had a more cohesive answer for him than something like that, but he's never evaluated how important Jude is on some scale, only acknowledged that he is important. That he matters.
All of the humans around him do, but the ones he's gotten to know have their own unique, personal value to him. And that, without question, includes the boy next to him]
But...why something like that?
[Surely Jude doesn't doubt that he matters to others. Kind as he is, he's got to have a lot of friends around here]