[It's in that moment when that painfully familiar voice that somehow Kaz never noticed as being all that similar to Big Boss's before, that Kaz nearly jars right out of his skin. He reels on a man whose codename he can't even remember, but face he does.]
[A face that he last saw full of shrapnel, and before that pulling him off Paz in a helicopter.]
[At first he doesn't even comment. He's too startled, blinking owlishly behind those glasses, dumb for a beat because how do you even react to being presented with... with this.]
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[A face that he last saw full of shrapnel, and before that pulling him off Paz in a helicopter.]
[At first he doesn't even comment. He's too startled, blinking owlishly behind those glasses, dumb for a beat because how do you even react to being presented with... with this.]
Yeah?
[Nailed it.]
[Even if it took too long to say.]