[she doesn't know what else she can say. he got so drunk he couldn't protect his nieces. he couldn't protect anybody. all he could do was sit there feeling sorry for himself in the middle of some... drunken stupor. it isn't an emotion that Emerald knows. it's not one she thinks she'll ever really know. so it takes her a moment to say anything more than that.]
That sounds like the kind of lesson that doesn't go away. Gods. That's... that's so much. I'm sorry. I don't know if I know what else to say.
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[she doesn't know what else she can say. he got so drunk he couldn't protect his nieces. he couldn't protect anybody. all he could do was sit there feeling sorry for himself in the middle of some... drunken stupor. it isn't an emotion that Emerald knows. it's not one she thinks she'll ever really know. so it takes her a moment to say anything more than that.]
That sounds like the kind of lesson that doesn't go away.
Gods. That's... that's so much. I'm sorry.
I don't know if I know what else to say.
Thanks for trusting me enough to tell me that.