[He doesn't respond at first, mouth open just slightly, before he closes it with a small exhale.] I'm used to it now. There are substitutes. You should try a crossbow, if you want a projectile.
[TBH!! He probably would read them aloud to her, like he read and told her all those stories growing up. He's already spent plenty of time reading aloud with Clarke here, reading to his sister is a nonissue.]
[Bellamy recognizes the knife she holds up and nods. It's a good one, one of the better he's gotten, but the words that follow are easy despite how good a weapon it is, how tightly he might've held on to it otherwise.] Keep it, if you want, even after you get one of your own.
[He thinks about how he used to be with her when they first landed on Earth and knows the idea of willingly giving her a weapon would have been unthinkable. It's a good change. He wants her to be protected, and that's something she can offer herself now too.]
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[TBH!! He probably would read them aloud to her, like he read and told her all those stories growing up. He's already spent plenty of time reading aloud with Clarke here, reading to his sister is a nonissue.]
[Bellamy recognizes the knife she holds up and nods. It's a good one, one of the better he's gotten, but the words that follow are easy despite how good a weapon it is, how tightly he might've held on to it otherwise.] Keep it, if you want, even after you get one of your own.
[He thinks about how he used to be with her when they first landed on Earth and knows the idea of willingly giving her a weapon would have been unthinkable. It's a good change. He wants her to be protected, and that's something she can offer herself now too.]