[Every tattoo, a dream. Keeping dreams as concepts, things on your own body-- that sounded-- it made his head hurt a little thinking about it. He couldn't imagine doing that with his own dreams. It sounded dangerous and like it had so much potential for things to go wrong. His dreams were already dangerous enough, even without the night horrors around trying to kill him.]
It sounds self-destructive.
[There was a risk to others too, he guessed, but more than anything it sounded most dangerous to Elijah.
It sounded like it worked vastly differently than Ronan's dreaming. He couldn't begin to understand it enough to help. But- he felt the desire to help. He'd probably be bad at it, anyway. He didn't think he was cut out to be a hero or mentor. He couldn't even stop one boy from dying.]
Did he understand all of this stuff?
[It hurt to talk about someone in the past tense, even if he hadn't been especially close to Dimitri. He knew what it was like to lose people you cared about. It was eating him alive.]
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It sounds self-destructive.
[There was a risk to others too, he guessed, but more than anything it sounded most dangerous to Elijah.
It sounded like it worked vastly differently than Ronan's dreaming. He couldn't begin to understand it enough to help. But- he felt the desire to help. He'd probably be bad at it, anyway. He didn't think he was cut out to be a hero or mentor. He couldn't even stop one boy from dying.]
Did he understand all of this stuff?
[It hurt to talk about someone in the past tense, even if he hadn't been especially close to Dimitri. He knew what it was like to lose people you cared about. It was eating him alive.]