[. . . yeah. Sorrow. Loneliness, too, despite circumstances. There was someone in the dream who didn't come out through the mirrors, and he's trying not to let it catch in his throat. Guilt for making Zelda feel bad, frankly.]
[Everything is so complicated.]
i don't blame you for it. [For anything she's feeling. Anything she ever feels. But he doesn't know how to articulate all of that. there's nothing to forgive.
he has. i told him right away, after we talked about what [A beat.] i am. since you're my [A longer beat. The terminology really doesn't flow yet, at all.] my bonded
but if it'll just be upsetting to you, you don't have to meet him.
[It's just . . . he doesn't know. Something. But not everything is about him. Especially not when he can't even quite articulate why this is so important to him.]
[Because they are both important to him. But the words won't go.]
no subject
[Everything is so complicated.]
i don't blame you for it. [For anything she's feeling. Anything she ever feels. But he doesn't know how to articulate all of that. there's nothing to forgive.
he has. i told him right away, after we talked about what [A beat.] i am. since you're my [A longer beat. The terminology really doesn't flow yet, at all.] my bonded
but if it'll just be upsetting to you, you don't have to meet him.
[It's just . . . he doesn't know. Something. But not everything is about him. Especially not when he can't even quite articulate why this is so important to him.]
[Because they are both important to him. But the words won't go.]