[He isn't dead, first of all. But Break thinks so, and he thinks it was Lily-- oh. Oh.
It occurs to Reim that he never actually asked the last thing Break remembered from home. No one told him; surely, someone would have mentioned something of this magnitude. He had simply assumed... Things suddenly click into place; every stupid mood swing, every pitiful face he never got an explanation for.
This--is inconvenient. For lack of a better term. Reim doesn't say anything for a moment, stricken; on some level, this is his fault.
(Suddenly, a seemingly inane comment about a faraway rabbit makes much more sense.)
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It occurs to Reim that he never actually asked the last thing Break remembered from home. No one told him; surely, someone would have mentioned something of this magnitude. He had simply assumed... Things suddenly click into place; every stupid mood swing, every pitiful face he never got an explanation for.
This--is inconvenient. For lack of a better term. Reim doesn't say anything for a moment, stricken; on some level, this is his fault.
(Suddenly, a seemingly inane comment about a faraway rabbit makes much more sense.)
Where does he start.]
Xerxes...