[He bends at the waist and there's a heavy pang of sadness within her. She's tried to studiously look away from what memories wish to play out. These aren't her memories after all and after accidentally looking at the memories of others she feels guilt over looking at anyone else's. They are their memories after all and they shouldn't be shared to involuntarily.
The first instinct is to perhaps comfort him in the way her Elder's had done for her after the death of her grandfather or after Princess Yase's collapse. That had all been directed at her though and she herself had never had to direct such words at another before. She stands awkwardly in place for a moment, simply watching him so bent over and feeling thoroughly useless herself.
Then she looks away pointedly. She doesn't know him well enough to say how best to comfort him and it strikes her as somehow humiliating for someone who is by all accounts little more than an acquaintance to see someone like this. Would she feel bad to be seen at her weakest? She thinks of Chitose's aid during her fight with the bandit and the helplessness she felt afterward. None of it was blamed on Chitose of course but still...
She doesn't want to leave him though. It's too easy to fall back into the memories when left alone. So she takes easy and soft footsteps over the shards of glass as she walks further in.]
I'm not watching but I'm still here. When you feel prepared, let's find a way out together.
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The first instinct is to perhaps comfort him in the way her Elder's had done for her after the death of her grandfather or after Princess Yase's collapse. That had all been directed at her though and she herself had never had to direct such words at another before. She stands awkwardly in place for a moment, simply watching him so bent over and feeling thoroughly useless herself.
Then she looks away pointedly. She doesn't know him well enough to say how best to comfort him and it strikes her as somehow humiliating for someone who is by all accounts little more than an acquaintance to see someone like this. Would she feel bad to be seen at her weakest? She thinks of Chitose's aid during her fight with the bandit and the helplessness she felt afterward. None of it was blamed on Chitose of course but still...
She doesn't want to leave him though. It's too easy to fall back into the memories when left alone. So she takes easy and soft footsteps over the shards of glass as she walks further in.]
I'm not watching but I'm still here. When you feel prepared, let's find a way out together.