[ Her answer is a halfway truth. It's sad, and it's bothering her. It's just another rehash of what she's been grappling with since she learned she was dead, though. She's been wading through it for nearly three years. This is doable.
She moves to tuck her hair behind her ears once she draws her hand back, looking out of the corner of her eye for a split-second, just in case. ]
It's... Things were so bad, when I left. I don't know if they'll ever get better. I worry about who I left behind, and if I could've done something better to help them or make things less horrible. [ She'd experienced an alternative in which she'd stopped the Purifiers, here. Could she really have done that? Would it have saved anybody? ] I guess it's the opposite of survivor's guilt, whatever you'd call that.
That makes us... I dunno'. Two sides of the same Expendable Super-Kid Coin?
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[ Her answer is a halfway truth. It's sad, and it's bothering her. It's just another rehash of what she's been grappling with since she learned she was dead, though. She's been wading through it for nearly three years. This is doable.
She moves to tuck her hair behind her ears once she draws her hand back, looking out of the corner of her eye for a split-second, just in case. ]
It's... Things were so bad, when I left. I don't know if they'll ever get better. I worry about who I left behind, and if I could've done something better to help them or make things less horrible. [ She'd experienced an alternative in which she'd stopped the Purifiers, here. Could she really have done that? Would it have saved anybody? ] I guess it's the opposite of survivor's guilt, whatever you'd call that.
That makes us... I dunno'. Two sides of the same Expendable Super-Kid Coin?