[ She does know, if just by looking and talking around, reading the network and the recorded history of this place. But reading that it does happen - and even personally knowing people who've been through death and revival more than once - it doesn't really prepare you for it. Not when death's been so final all your life, and not when you don't actually know for sure if it'll still work this time.
And not for seeing a friend like this. Not to see Taako like this.
She knows, she can't push. There's no point to it. He won't want it, anyway. As many tend to gently push away comforting words and gestures as a way of feeling polite, Taako always made it clear that vulnerability is not his thing.
But here they stand, and it's not that easy to just leave him there, like this.]
...I'm so sorry, Taako. [ She says it gently, quiet. They can pretend she never said it - nobody needs to know.]
Do you--can-- [ God.] Can I do...anything to help? At all?
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And not for seeing a friend like this. Not to see Taako like this.
She knows, she can't push. There's no point to it. He won't want it, anyway. As many tend to gently push away comforting words and gestures as a way of feeling polite, Taako always made it clear that vulnerability is not his thing.
But here they stand, and it's not that easy to just leave him there, like this.]
...I'm so sorry, Taako. [ She says it gently, quiet. They can pretend she never said it - nobody needs to know.]
Do you--can-- [ God.] Can I do...anything to help? At all?