[ this is a great fucking question actually!!!! he gets up and after a moment comes to sit beside him on his bed, hands folded together in his lap, shoulders dropping, head bowed. ]
Twenty, with our new arrival, before we have any suspects. [ which is a whole other thing but you know.
he's calm and quiet as he says this, though the sorrow weighs him down like a cloak - it is taair's usual to try to keep a wide perspective, and this is no different, though saying the small figure makes his heart ache. ] And... seventeen, if we consider after. But - we do not necessarily know that is the case, either. We won't know until tomorrow.
...nor does it make the pain any less, either, to know that they are safe somewhere. [ ... ] My heart feels heavy.
... no one's struck twice in a week, before. But we haven't had three like this before either. It really is too early to tell.
[ ...he reaches out, touches taair's arm. it's difficult, to see him so heavily burdened, after the joy on his face earlier in the week as they explored together.
he's reminded painfully of mamoru back home - someone so brilliantly kind that the cruelty of the world bore down on them more than they allowed anyone to see, especially as adults who bore the responsibilities of age, as well. ]
You know I'm no good at having faith in this whole process, but... I wanna have faith in us to get through it, anyway. To see everyone again. Maybe that's enough?
[ god chrono is so good. he turns his head to look at him - and though there is near always a smile on taair's face, it is in this moment that it takes on his normal warmth, something more heartened.
he reaches over and sets his hand on his on his arm, and squeezes. ]
It is enough. [ softly, but not less sure. ] The smallest light of hope can combine with many others to form a ray through the darkness. And though our times are difficult, we have each other to lean on, and the well-wishes and hopes of those who wait for us to walk towards. That is our greatest strength.
Let's hold onto that faith together, shall we? You and I.
[ it warms his heart in turn, to see that restored to taair's face, even if it's through the shadows of the morning. serving almost as a concentration of what he then describes.
a light in the darkness. their own path to walk towards. maybe despite his own insistence otherwise, he is naïve after all, to trust anything at this point. and yet ]
...yeah. If there's enough of us believing in the possibility of that future, it can come true. [ he smiles, sad at the corners, but heartfelt. ] Something I learned a while ago. It got me through things before, so we can hold onto it now.
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Twenty, with our new arrival, before we have any suspects. [ which is a whole other thing but you know.
he's calm and quiet as he says this, though the sorrow weighs him down like a cloak - it is taair's usual to try to keep a wide perspective, and this is no different, though saying the small figure makes his heart ache. ] And... seventeen, if we consider after. But - we do not necessarily know that is the case, either. We won't know until tomorrow.
...nor does it make the pain any less, either, to know that they are safe somewhere. [ ... ] My heart feels heavy.
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[ ...he reaches out, touches taair's arm. it's difficult, to see him so heavily burdened, after the joy on his face earlier in the week as they explored together.
he's reminded painfully of mamoru back home - someone so brilliantly kind that the cruelty of the world bore down on them more than they allowed anyone to see, especially as adults who bore the responsibilities of age, as well. ]
You know I'm no good at having faith in this whole process, but... I wanna have faith in us to get through it, anyway. To see everyone again. Maybe that's enough?
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he reaches over and sets his hand on his on his arm, and squeezes. ]
It is enough. [ softly, but not less sure. ] The smallest light of hope can combine with many others to form a ray through the darkness. And though our times are difficult, we have each other to lean on, and the well-wishes and hopes of those who wait for us to walk towards. That is our greatest strength.
Let's hold onto that faith together, shall we? You and I.
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a light in the darkness. their own path to walk towards. maybe despite his own insistence otherwise, he is naïve after all, to trust anything at this point. and yet ]
...yeah. If there's enough of us believing in the possibility of that future, it can come true. [ he smiles, sad at the corners, but heartfelt. ] Something I learned a while ago. It got me through things before, so we can hold onto it now.