Adult Brand pinches the bridge of his nose and swears steadily while kid Brand does a search of the room, checking under the bed first and spiraling out to prod at all the locations something could conceivably hide while Rune waits on the bed.
"I fucking hate this place," he finishes as his child self climbs up on the bed with Rune, who happily tugs him into the blanket nest.
"Okay," kid Brand says. "It's safe."
"I wasn't scared," Rune says loftily. Kid Brand shoves him.
"You were having a nightmare," he says. Rune sticks his tongue out.
"You were having a nightmare."
The exchange, rather predictably, leads to a tussle and increasingly loud protestations from Rune as Brand pummels him with a pillow.
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Adult Brand pinches the bridge of his nose and swears steadily while kid Brand does a search of the room, checking under the bed first and spiraling out to prod at all the locations something could conceivably hide while Rune waits on the bed.
"I fucking hate this place," he finishes as his child self climbs up on the bed with Rune, who happily tugs him into the blanket nest.
"Okay," kid Brand says. "It's safe."
"I wasn't scared," Rune says loftily. Kid Brand shoves him.
"You were having a nightmare," he says. Rune sticks his tongue out.
"You were having a nightmare."
The exchange, rather predictably, leads to a tussle and increasingly loud protestations from Rune as Brand pummels him with a pillow.