Konoha hangs her head, unable to raise it despite her intent to. Matthias wouldn't want her to cry. She knew that. But knowing it and being able to do it were two different things, and all she can think about now is that he's dead, and she's standing her alive holding what was basically a gift from beyond the grave.
He'd had a chance here, to live again... and instead of sending home someone who had a life to return to... He'd been lost instead. One of the first people she'd met in this world, who had lent her his sleeve to dry her tears and tried to help her make sense of a world that terrified her with its strangeness. One of the friends she had made that helped her feel like it wasn't so bad, being stuck in this place far from home. Someone who'd taught her things, and told her stories, and called her his friend.
So she tries, she does, reaching up to wipe her tears with her own sleeve, but she can't stop the flow now that it's started, emotion choking up her reply.]
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Konoha hangs her head, unable to raise it despite her intent to. Matthias wouldn't want her to cry. She knew that. But knowing it and being able to do it were two different things, and all she can think about now is that he's dead, and she's standing her alive holding what was basically a gift from beyond the grave.
He'd had a chance here, to live again... and instead of sending home someone who had a life to return to... He'd been lost instead. One of the first people she'd met in this world, who had lent her his sleeve to dry her tears and tried to help her make sense of a world that terrified her with its strangeness. One of the friends she had made that helped her feel like it wasn't so bad, being stuck in this place far from home. Someone who'd taught her things, and told her stories, and called her his friend.
So she tries, she does, reaching up to wipe her tears with her own sleeve, but she can't stop the flow now that it's started, emotion choking up her reply.]
Yeah... He did...
[He really did.]