[The response is automatic, even as Konoha nuzzles into the other woman's shoulder as if they'd known each other for years, accidentally wetting her shoulder with hot tears. The tiniest bit of them came from a selfish sense of betrayal, that such a thing had been kept from her, but mostly... it was just sadness. That he was dead at all, that he'd just suffered in silence every time she made a comment or suggestion that was predicated on the idea that he was alive, that one day he'd make it back to Nina's side in his world...
She'd done her best, trying to repay what she considered was kindness and help she'd received from him first, when she'd only just arrived in Lunatia and Matthias had found her cowering in the Groves. Cowering even worse at the sight of a wolf all too similar to the one that had left the bite marks scarring her forearm, but.
He'd been dead the whole time, while she'd been chattering away about life and a future...]
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[The response is automatic, even as Konoha nuzzles into the other woman's shoulder as if they'd known each other for years, accidentally wetting her shoulder with hot tears. The tiniest bit of them came from a selfish sense of betrayal, that such a thing had been kept from her, but mostly... it was just sadness. That he was dead at all, that he'd just suffered in silence every time she made a comment or suggestion that was predicated on the idea that he was alive, that one day he'd make it back to Nina's side in his world...
She'd done her best, trying to repay what she considered was kindness and help she'd received from him first, when she'd only just arrived in Lunatia and Matthias had found her cowering in the Groves. Cowering even worse at the sight of a wolf all too similar to the one that had left the bite marks scarring her forearm, but.
He'd been dead the whole time, while she'd been chattering away about life and a future...]
But... You're here now, so. So...
[It could be better for him. For them. Right?]