[Rei stares down at her tea, fingers wrapped around the cup. This is something she was worried about happening, honestly. She didn't want to leave Max without some sort of comfort, but it seemed like this wasn't just because she was dead. There was a kind of tiredness to her that Rei had seen in other people who had been through too much. She'd seen it in her friends from time to time, after a particularly brutal confrontation and it always made her thoughts slam to a screeching halt.
But, she was getting better at peopling, and recovered a little more quickly. She shook her head, and reached a hand out, covering one one Max's fists.]
She will come back. And you being here has been like a ray of sunshine for her. I can feel that, too.
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Date: 2019-01-19 04:51 pm (UTC)[Rei stares down at her tea, fingers wrapped around the cup. This is something she was worried about happening, honestly. She didn't want to leave Max without some sort of comfort, but it seemed like this wasn't just because she was dead. There was a kind of tiredness to her that Rei had seen in other people who had been through too much. She'd seen it in her friends from time to time, after a particularly brutal confrontation and it always made her thoughts slam to a screeching halt.
But, she was getting better at peopling, and recovered a little more quickly. She shook her head, and reached a hand out, covering one one Max's fists.]
She will come back. And you being here has been like a ray of sunshine for her. I can feel that, too.
[She sighs.]
All you need to do is just be there for her.