That sounds like something out of how myths are born. I like it.
[ She likes to think she's not afraid of anything or anyone—not the Salvadoran drug lord who locked her up for three days and tried to convince her she'd never be found, not the murderers she helps catch, not Booth with his alpha male swagger and his obeisance to outdated social mores—but then... things changed when Booth came back into her life. She feared she didn't know who she was, she feared being killed and fed to dogs, she feared being killed by a murderer who knew that Brennan could find them. She feared losing one of the most important people in her life, and she fears, still fears, that she has. That she failed him.
The Vast doesn't compare to Zack Addy confessing to murder in the name of the Gormogon tradition.
Luckily, this man with his mythological leanings changes the subject, and Brennan, who lbr here is quite proud and used to talking about herself, takes the opportunity immediately. ]
I do. I'm a scientist. The best forensic anthropologist in the world. [ She says it casually, because it's a fact. Forgive her. ] You strike me as... a folklorist, maybe. Either as a professional or an amateur.
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[ She likes to think she's not afraid of anything or anyone—not the Salvadoran drug lord who locked her up for three days and tried to convince her she'd never be found, not the murderers she helps catch, not Booth with his alpha male swagger and his obeisance to outdated social mores—but then... things changed when Booth came back into her life. She feared she didn't know who she was, she feared being killed and fed to dogs, she feared being killed by a murderer who knew that Brennan could find them. She feared losing one of the most important people in her life, and she fears, still fears, that she has. That she failed him.
The Vast doesn't compare to Zack Addy confessing to murder in the name of the Gormogon tradition.
Luckily, this man with his mythological leanings changes the subject, and Brennan, who lbr here is quite proud and used to talking about herself, takes the opportunity immediately. ]
I do. I'm a scientist. The best forensic anthropologist in the world. [ She says it casually, because it's a fact. Forgive her. ] You strike me as... a folklorist, maybe. Either as a professional or an amateur.