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[personal profile] squirt 2023-07-04 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh—there's a new little droplet of sadness in the vast lake of sadness already there, shaped like sympathy. saying goodbye is hard. expecting to have more time and then suddenly having it ripped away is like losing the ground you're standing on is just as bad. ]

There is no closure.

[ he didn't find it when count d died, and there certainly wasn't any in the mess today. he does not think this will get easier. ]

But I... don't know. [ ... ] Matsui and Buzen talked about—after Rin died. They said they wouldn't want to win like that. Living and knowing what it'd cost. [ child murder trauma ] But we're still here.

[ living, at what cost? ]

And there's still... a long way to go. [ it's week two, ]