[ Not in the face of such total inability to control the situation. None of them can really help it, can they? In the wake of that message, though, she spends those few seconds trying to think of something else, something better that she might be able to say--
but then comes that other line, and it's... enough, perhaps. ]
Then it's a promise.
[ Even so, her mind continues to work on the problem. On anything she can do, really, to provide him some measure of comfort. ]
It may not make any difference but I'm glad that you two were at least able to spend some time together in the city.
[ Sometimes all one really has left are memories - which she knows entirely too well, but saying as much seems like it would be counterproductive. In any case, she's spent enough of her own life alone to be relieved that Lalli is... less so, by all appearances. ]
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[ Not in the face of such total inability to control the situation. None of them can really help it, can they? In the wake of that message, though, she spends those few seconds trying to think of something else, something better that she might be able to say--
but then comes that other line, and it's... enough, perhaps. ]
Then it's a promise.
[ Even so, her mind continues to work on the problem. On anything she can do, really, to provide him some measure of comfort. ]
It may not make any difference but
I'm glad that you two were at least able to spend some time together in the city.
[ Sometimes all one really has left are memories - which she knows entirely too well, but saying as much seems like it would be counterproductive. In any case, she's spent enough of her own life alone to be relieved that Lalli is... less so, by all appearances. ]