[There's a very long moment of silence as Bucky just watches Manabu, fingers frozen over the cards he'd be about to pass over to the other man.]
I haven't had a friend for-- since before.
[Seventy years without a friend, without even being human. It's stupid to be hesitating over this, he's given the other man an address and they've saved each other, they're-- they must be. But it feels like another forbidden boundary to cross, and it's strangely hard to acknowledge aloud.]
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I haven't had a friend for-- since before.
[Seventy years without a friend, without even being human. It's stupid to be hesitating over this, he's given the other man an address and they've saved each other, they're-- they must be. But it feels like another forbidden boundary to cross, and it's strangely hard to acknowledge aloud.]
I don't think I remember how.