That was really good! Try and snap your wrist a little faster next time.
[genuine encouragement and advice! maybe you should tell her not-really-embarrassing at all secrets more often. Hazel smiles and digs her toes into the sand a little bit before addressing the more central topic.]
But, um. You did a really good job with this. For a little while I actually...forgot, about me. And that probably sounds really awful because this is about you right now, but I mean.
[she purses her lips, digging her toes into the beach a little deeper. damn, did her ability to phrase emotions die with the rest of her those ten years ago?]
We're all missing something. But we're all here now, so it's...ok. We can fill in the blanks for each other until we go home.
[did that help? did she sound like an asshole? whatever, it came from her nonexistent heart all the same. Hazel starts stacking up the remaining pebbles into a little pyramid so that she has something to look at that isn't her conversation partner.]
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[genuine encouragement and advice! maybe you should tell her not-really-embarrassing at all secrets more often. Hazel smiles and digs her toes into the sand a little bit before addressing the more central topic.]
But, um. You did a really good job with this. For a little while I actually...forgot, about me. And that probably sounds really awful because this is about you right now, but I mean.
[she purses her lips, digging her toes into the beach a little deeper. damn, did her ability to phrase emotions die with the rest of her those ten years ago?]
We're all missing something. But we're all here now, so it's...ok. We can fill in the blanks for each other until we go home.
[did that help? did she sound like an asshole? whatever, it came from her nonexistent heart all the same. Hazel starts stacking up the remaining pebbles into a little pyramid so that she has something to look at that isn't her conversation partner.]
Or whatever.