Forgive, O Lord,
my little jokes on thee...
Lindsay watched Anya tend to Ashley, and was on the verge of having a panic attack and a nervous breakdown at the same time, but when Anya asked her question, he was able to focus for a brief moment. At least to recant the tale.
"Well... well, I went down to the water to talk to Ashley, and I saw him swimming around and he looked like he was having fun and in a good mood, so I thought that this would go well." he told her. "And when I talked to him, he told me we would probably be leaving town at some point, but then I said that maybe we could stay and visit you more, but then he said that too many people know about us being thieves and we needed to go." he went on. "So then I replied with maybe we could actually live here and be with someone that cares about us and can take care of us, which was when he got really angry, saying that we've been surviving this far already, we can keep doing it." he continued.
"And that's when I said that we were slowly withering away, and I was scared how long we would last, and then he yelled at me, saying that if I loved you so much over him, then I should just stay here and he'll continue proving that he doesn't need anyone, but then I responded that because we're family we need to stick together and that it was okay for us to rely on the kindness of others sometimes, but that seemed to make him even angrier, and he started to move towards me like he was going to hit me, but he then slipped on something and fell into the water." he told her further.
"After a few seconds, he floated to the surface of the water, face down, and the water around him was turning red, so I panicked and jumped in, pulled him out of the water and brought him back here." he finished.
As he spoke, his words were getting quicker and quicker, his voice was quavering more and more, and by the end, he sounded like he was ready to burst into tears.
"I don't want to lose him." he said. "I don't want the last thing we talked about to have been an argument..."
...and I'll forgive thy
great big one on me.