I-- [ There's a crack in her voice, and when she closes her eyes she doesn't see him there, but others she has lost instead. Others who had perished because of her. They had smiles like him, too. They had the potential to grow, to become great, and now they're gone. ] I'm sorry.
[ She's only known him briefly, but it is precisely because of that she feels this grief so keenly. She had seen the cleverness in his eyes, the cunning and playfulness, the hopeless romantic, the foolishness, the courage... so to see them instead stare back at her blankly, devoid of all the joy and life they had once carried is tragic. She had told him she had wanted to learn and know more about him, but now that promise is null.
Now her tears fall, and one strikes upon his thigh. ]
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[ She's only known him briefly, but it is precisely because of that she feels this grief so keenly. She had seen the cleverness in his eyes, the cunning and playfulness, the hopeless romantic, the foolishness, the courage... so to see them instead stare back at her blankly, devoid of all the joy and life they had once carried is tragic. She had told him she had wanted to learn and know more about him, but now that promise is null.
Now her tears fall, and one strikes upon his thigh. ]