You don't have to apologize for that. It's just the way this place can be.
[... She's looking at him. And he can tell it's in a way where she knows there's more to this whole thing. Given how he's been saying all this information, he's not surprised that she can tell.
Considering she hasn't backed away or looked at him with disgust or anything of that sort, he's honestly considering this as "going decently well". ... Decently. After the years he spent with Judith in the past, if there's one thing he can tell easily, it's when she's tense. Should he ...?
... Maybe he should. It was because of Jonah that he wanted to bring this up to begin with, after all. He doesn't want to - or at least he was hoping to tell her one thing at one point, and another thing at some other point, but ... he knows he'd just end up continuing to semi-avoid her if he continued to keep the main issue to himself.
He closes his eyes, trying to choose his words carefully. He really wishes he could just be blunt and straight-forward with this, just to get it over with, but ... well, this was definitely going to be a heavy bit of information.]
During those two years, something happened that we didn't plan for. We knew this wasn't a good place for it, but especially back then, we all felt that we could just ... bring him back with us, whenever we found a way to go home on our own. We weren't the first people to have that happen to us in Luceti as it was, and that just made things feel more ... hopeful, I guess.
[ ... ]
He was a little over a year old when he was taken away by the Malnosso, on the same day you were sent home. They said he was moved to another enclosure here, but believing their words is the last thing I'll do.
[He stops himself there, fairly abruptly. He can feel himself starting to get angry about having failed so horribly to protect his son, and that's the last thing this discussion needs right now.]
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[... She's looking at him. And he can tell it's in a way where she knows there's more to this whole thing. Given how he's been saying all this information, he's not surprised that she can tell.
Considering she hasn't backed away or looked at him with disgust or anything of that sort, he's honestly considering this as "going decently well". ... Decently. After the years he spent with Judith in the past, if there's one thing he can tell easily, it's when she's tense. Should he ...?
... Maybe he should. It was because of Jonah that he wanted to bring this up to begin with, after all. He doesn't want to - or at least he was hoping to tell her one thing at one point, and another thing at some other point, but ... he knows he'd just end up continuing to semi-avoid her if he continued to keep the main issue to himself.
He closes his eyes, trying to choose his words carefully. He really wishes he could just be blunt and straight-forward with this, just to get it over with, but ... well, this was definitely going to be a heavy bit of information.]
During those two years, something happened that we didn't plan for. We knew this wasn't a good place for it, but especially back then, we all felt that we could just ... bring him back with us, whenever we found a way to go home on our own. We weren't the first people to have that happen to us in Luceti as it was, and that just made things feel more ... hopeful, I guess.
[ ... ]
He was a little over a year old when he was taken away by the Malnosso, on the same day you were sent home. They said he was moved to another enclosure here, but believing their words is the last thing I'll do.
[He stops himself there, fairly abruptly. He can feel himself starting to get angry about having failed so horribly to protect his son, and that's the last thing this discussion needs right now.]