[ Just echoing the sentiment feels hollow, but focusing on the conversation is helping - or at least, it's keeping them from replaying the fight over-and-over in their head. They need to learn to manage this, because it's going to keep happening; and next time there might not be a kindly sort-of stranger nearby to help.
But their way of managing things is to think them through, piece by piece. Which just leads back to horrors and... eugh. ]
But... it's over. [ Just focus on breathing; in, out. In, out. ] It... is over, right?
[ Lion's gaze is still locked squarely on the slumped form of The Asshole Formerly Known As Captain Grim. And only some of the "why" there is because of their errant companion. By the by - how hurt is Lorem? ]
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[ Just echoing the sentiment feels hollow, but focusing on the conversation is helping - or at least, it's keeping them from replaying the fight over-and-over in their head. They need to learn to manage this, because it's going to keep happening; and next time there might not be a kindly sort-of stranger nearby to help.
But their way of managing things is to think them through, piece by piece. Which just leads back to horrors and... eugh. ]
But... it's over. [ Just focus on breathing; in, out. In, out. ] It... is over, right?
[ Lion's gaze is still locked squarely on the slumped form of The Asshole Formerly Known As Captain Grim. And only some of the "why" there is because of their errant companion. By the by - how hurt is Lorem? ]