[Maybe he shouldn't have asked. Should he even bother with an apology?]
... You flinched.
[If it were him, he'd want it pointed out. It seems like she should too, if she values self-awareness.]
You feel things. You just don't feel them like other people.
[He shakes his head.]
I won't say I understand what you're going through, even with the flood. I was just curious since I don't often talk about Claudia, let alone to anyone who can at all understand what it's like to lose someone like that.
[He doesn't even know what he means. Claudia was always meant to be just a single chapter in his life, an experiment he would eventually move on from. Things turned out quite a bit more complicated than that, but it's hard to identify why.]
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... You flinched.
[If it were him, he'd want it pointed out. It seems like she should too, if she values self-awareness.]
You feel things. You just don't feel them like other people.
[He shakes his head.]
I won't say I understand what you're going through, even with the flood. I was just curious since I don't often talk about Claudia, let alone to anyone who can at all understand what it's like to lose someone like that.
[He doesn't even know what he means. Claudia was always meant to be just a single chapter in his life, an experiment he would eventually move on from. Things turned out quite a bit more complicated than that, but it's hard to identify why.]