[ He hadn't done it to be brave. It just all happened so fast.
Dipper is silently grateful that Hiro spares him the necessity of going into too much detail on what happened next. He'd fallen - that was the long and the short of it. Hiro doesn't need to know about the impossible fear that had burned through Dipper's mind as the inevitability of his fate really hit him. Hiro didn't need to know how Dipper's hand had slipped from Yu's. Hiro didn't need to know about falling, about light receding and pain receding, about everything receding, all of himself, until there was nothing left.
...But that hadn't lasted long, either.
His hands wind around his arms. ] There's something else you need to know. After I...after it happened, I woke up in the Nexus Code.
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Dipper is silently grateful that Hiro spares him the necessity of going into too much detail on what happened next. He'd fallen - that was the long and the short of it. Hiro doesn't need to know about the impossible fear that had burned through Dipper's mind as the inevitability of his fate really hit him. Hiro didn't need to know how Dipper's hand had slipped from Yu's. Hiro didn't need to know about falling, about light receding and pain receding, about everything receding, all of himself, until there was nothing left.
...But that hadn't lasted long, either.
His hands wind around his arms. ] There's something else you need to know. After I...after it happened, I woke up in the Nexus Code.