[He sighs wearily as he leans into Temenos, keeping that grip against him firm. This... he doesn't want to think about losing this, too.]
...Lobelia spoke to me, before everything went bad. In my head. He's done it before.
He called me a coward. That I couldn't protect my family, and would never protect them, and that I couldn't protect Haruka and Xiao, either. That it was all my fault for not...
...
[He exhales, frustrated, pained... but Temenos is his grounding, of touch and smell and sight and the sound of his breath against the crash of the falls. So he tries to let the tension sink to the ground, letting his touch rub against Temenos's arm.]
I didn't want to believe him. But it's hard not to.
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...Lobelia spoke to me, before everything went bad. In my head. He's done it before.
He called me a coward. That I couldn't protect my family, and would never protect them, and that I couldn't protect Haruka and Xiao, either. That it was all my fault for not...
...
[He exhales, frustrated, pained... but Temenos is his grounding, of touch and smell and sight and the sound of his breath against the crash of the falls. So he tries to let the tension sink to the ground, letting his touch rub against Temenos's arm.]
I didn't want to believe him. But it's hard not to.