Chris shifts to accommodate Hawke with a slight grumble but offers little other resistance. The chair was meant to sit two comfortably.
He doesn't respond to the remark about not being a burden or not taking his own blame, if he doesn't acknowledge them then he doesn't have to agree or disagree. He also doesn't have to acknowledge that he knows that's the risk of this place. So many people he cares for have suffered that -suffered this- while Chris went along lucky enough not to for so long, but that wasn't all of it. Maybe if he spoke of the memories, Hawke would understand why it sits so ill in Chris...but he can't. The physical violation takes little to understand.
The rest, at least, makes Chris chuckle. "Oh would you? You going toe-to-toe with some ancient vampire who can control in the blood in your body? Love you too and all, but I'd have to warn against it. Besides, we didn't kill him, something else did, we just swept up the mess."
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He doesn't respond to the remark about not being a burden or not taking his own blame, if he doesn't acknowledge them then he doesn't have to agree or disagree. He also doesn't have to acknowledge that he knows that's the risk of this place. So many people he cares for have suffered that -suffered this- while Chris went along lucky enough not to for so long, but that wasn't all of it. Maybe if he spoke of the memories, Hawke would understand why it sits so ill in Chris...but he can't. The physical violation takes little to understand.
The rest, at least, makes Chris chuckle. "Oh would you? You going toe-to-toe with some ancient vampire who can control in the blood in your body? Love you too and all, but I'd have to warn against it. Besides, we didn't kill him, something else did, we just swept up the mess."