[ the way he delivers the truth is effective. she doesn't need - or want - things sugercoated for her. she'd be insulted to be coddled, sheltered, protected from reality when she's already spent her entire life clawing for her survival. she doesn't need anything softened for her. ]
It's just hard, Vash.
[ the crying has slowed considerably, and she lowers her hands from her face. and she leans against him, so now he's stuck here. ]
I was alone for so long, I didn't know that it'd feel like this. [ sniffle. ] I don't want you or Wolfwood to go either. I don't even know what halfway is.
[ it feels like all or nothing. here one day, gone the next. ]
[ He lets her lean against him and stays nested here, having no plans to leave until they need to send off their newly departed. ]
I know it's hard. [ Loss. Familiar, yet it makes itself new again. ] Halfway can be just trying, like Shenhe did.
[ All he asks is that she doesn't forsake love, for it is never a mistake to love. No one is foolish for it... And he hopes that she can swing back, be herself. ]
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It's just hard, Vash.
[ the crying has slowed considerably, and she lowers her hands from her face. and she leans against him, so now he's stuck here. ]
I was alone for so long, I didn't know that it'd feel like this. [ sniffle. ] I don't want you or Wolfwood to go either. I don't even know what halfway is.
[ it feels like all or nothing. here one day, gone the next. ]
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I know it's hard. [ Loss. Familiar, yet it makes itself new again. ] Halfway can be just trying, like Shenhe did.
[ All he asks is that she doesn't forsake love, for it is never a mistake to love. No one is foolish for it... And he hopes that she can swing back, be herself. ]