[ out of his mouth before he can even control it - with feeling, because. goddamn.
a beat, and then. ]
...I'm sorry, Vi. About your sister. [ because intimately, he understands how it feels to lose the things that anchor you to the world. about how much family matters. about how hard it hurts when it's gone. he's had seven years to cope, and those seven years have done little in easing the wound of the haliaetus family line. ] Talk about no cause.
[ because that's the other thing. he knows how that feels, too. staring down the moment of nothing. the void of what comes after, when you've lost everything. the grief of making it through your day to day. drinking or drinking
no subject
[ out of his mouth before he can even control it - with feeling, because. goddamn.
a beat, and then. ]
...I'm sorry, Vi. About your sister. [ because intimately, he understands how it feels to lose the things that anchor you to the world. about how much family matters. about how hard it hurts when it's gone. he's had seven years to cope, and those seven years have done little in easing the wound of the haliaetus family line. ] Talk about no cause.
[ because that's the other thing. he knows how that feels, too. staring down the moment of nothing. the void of what comes after, when you've lost everything. the grief of making it through your day to day. drinking or drinking
silence, for a moment. ]
Those options are terrible.