Soothing him comes more naturally than it probably should, but it's too exhausting to keep up the front of being perpetually unfettered. Mariko listens to him, listens to his mind begin to catch up to the things they only ever talk around or fight about.
"I know." Her tone is gentle, but she knows the knowledge will likely be galling. "I remembered Him, in a hospital bed but I didn't know how to tell you without scaring you. That's why we had that fight about keeping secrets a few months ago."
She steels herself for him to pull his hand away, for his anger and his disappointment all over again. It's what she deserves for failing him twice. He's her friend and someone she was supposed to lead in another lifetime - and still he ended up skirting death on her watch.
"I-I..." She frowns at his hand, the wound - all of it.
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Soothing him comes more naturally than it probably should, but it's too exhausting to keep up the front of being perpetually unfettered. Mariko listens to him, listens to his mind begin to catch up to the things they only ever talk around or fight about.
"I know." Her tone is gentle, but she knows the knowledge will likely be galling. "I remembered Him, in a hospital bed but I didn't know how to tell you without scaring you. That's why we had that fight about keeping secrets a few months ago."
She steels herself for him to pull his hand away, for his anger and his disappointment all over again. It's what she deserves for failing him twice. He's her friend and someone she was supposed to lead in another lifetime - and still he ended up skirting death on her watch.
"I-I..." She frowns at his hand, the wound - all of it.
"I don't even know what to say, anymore."