Ganymede listens, to his credit, and only lets out a very faint sigh when Raylan tells him that about disarming someone. If it were any other day, any day where he hadn't been treated for the last two and a half hours like he was some kind of stupid boy who'd gotten himself hurt by being foolish, he'd have swallowed the comment that tumbled out of his mouth without further thought. Any other day and he'd have kept the illusion intact of him being utterly normal, albeit youthful-looking.
But today was not any other day. Maybe it was a mark of how comfortable he felt around Raylan, given how he knew the other man was about his work; there would be every attempt given to de-escalate, but once violence was the only good option left, it would be the last one. It was a attitude Ganymede happened to share, though his fuse was significantly longer than most people's, and he knew that about himself. Largely it was part and parcel of what he'd been made and the long intervening years of his life.
"If it had been only me I'd have killed him and been done with it." But it hadn't been only him, and Ganymede was if nothing else aware enough that he was not a gun guy. He hadn't wanted anyone else to be hurt through his misadventure or miscalculation, especially someone for whom the wound would be much more of a problem.
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But today was not any other day. Maybe it was a mark of how comfortable he felt around Raylan, given how he knew the other man was about his work; there would be every attempt given to de-escalate, but once violence was the only good option left, it would be the last one. It was a attitude Ganymede happened to share, though his fuse was significantly longer than most people's, and he knew that about himself. Largely it was part and parcel of what he'd been made and the long intervening years of his life.
"If it had been only me I'd have killed him and been done with it." But it hadn't been only him, and Ganymede was if nothing else aware enough that he was not a gun guy. He hadn't wanted anyone else to be hurt through his misadventure or miscalculation, especially someone for whom the wound would be much more of a problem.