[ There's nothing she can say, no magic words she can use to make this tragedy better. In Lucina, it settles too quickly, because she's had too much practice doing so - because when there's someone who needs her to be the adult, that's exactly what she does. Another failure, laying deeper in the shadows beneath her eyes, making the battle scars laid across her skin itch just that much more.
Empathy does settle in, softness replacing the whip-crack of Lucina's voice. Akvos is lost, but Sheryl is right here, and that's what needs her attention right now. ]
It is no clearer to me than it is to you, Sheryl. [ Her hands find her swordbelt at its diagonal slash across her chest, fingers flexing into the worn leather. ] We're not given to know why.
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[ There's nothing she can say, no magic words she can use to make this tragedy better. In Lucina, it settles too quickly, because she's had too much practice doing so - because when there's someone who needs her to be the adult, that's exactly what she does. Another failure, laying deeper in the shadows beneath her eyes, making the battle scars laid across her skin itch just that much more.
Empathy does settle in, softness replacing the whip-crack of Lucina's voice. Akvos is lost, but Sheryl is right here, and that's what needs her attention right now. ]
It is no clearer to me than it is to you, Sheryl. [ Her hands find her swordbelt at its diagonal slash across her chest, fingers flexing into the worn leather. ] We're not given to know why.