He knew what the boy was speaking of, but hearing it in his words helped. There was no truly grateful way to weather this loss, but he thinks it is- not worse, the pain was the same for all of them- but more confusing, more incomprehensible for those who kept their minds and their hearts close. They protected themselves that way, and to find it didn't help, that their careful barriers meant nothing to this was hard. It could make them fearful. Angry. It was their right.]
You don't.
[The step Prince takes towards him is carefully measured.]
It is a pain you didn't ask for, but it is yours now. It is a reminder of the only thing you have left to fight for but your own life. [Prince's hand raises, it is an unintentional thing, the way it comes to resf near the center of his chest] They are wounded, too.
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He knew what the boy was speaking of, but hearing it in his words helped. There was no truly grateful way to weather this loss, but he thinks it is- not worse, the pain was the same for all of them- but more confusing, more incomprehensible for those who kept their minds and their hearts close. They protected themselves that way, and to find it didn't help, that their careful barriers meant nothing to this was hard. It could make them fearful. Angry. It was their right.]
You don't.
[The step Prince takes towards him is carefully measured.]
It is a pain you didn't ask for, but it is yours now. It is a reminder of the only thing you have left to fight for but your own life. [Prince's hand raises, it is an unintentional thing, the way it comes to resf near the center of his chest] They are wounded, too.