[ She rests alongside him, shoulder-to-shoulder, and if she closes her eyes she can almost picture themselves back atop the final state within the game they've both created, lying on a grassy plain, looking up at the false stars. Even if that hadn't been reality, the moment was.
This isn't the same moment, but despite the... awkwardness, she vastly prefers this: the real him, beside her. --But it's not exactly "awkward" to her, either. Tense, perhaps, except not in a fight or flight way; yes, that's it, a restrained tenseness, holding herself from doing something that would be too much, too soon. She can't look at him just yet.
She wonders just what had been on his mind earlier this day for him to take to alcohol with another, and oh, she can hazard a few guesses starting all the way back to three months ago, when Luna first vanished, then his father had fallen asleep. Then it he had awakened with new memories and information, information that had been explicitly revealed to him... by her.
"Just be here, and be yourself."
...She stays by his side. ] It's alright. A messy kitchen [ And bedroom, apparently. ] means that you're here. [ Simply, she puts: ] I like that.
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This isn't the same moment, but despite the... awkwardness, she vastly prefers this: the real him, beside her. --But it's not exactly "awkward" to her, either. Tense, perhaps, except not in a fight or flight way; yes, that's it, a restrained tenseness, holding herself from doing something that would be too much, too soon. She can't look at him just yet.
She wonders just what had been on his mind earlier this day for him to take to alcohol with another, and oh, she can hazard a few guesses starting all the way back to three months ago, when Luna first vanished, then his father had fallen asleep. Then it he had awakened with new memories and information, information that had been explicitly revealed to him... by her.
"Just be here, and be yourself."
...She stays by his side. ] It's alright. A messy kitchen [ And bedroom, apparently. ] means that you're here. [ Simply, she puts: ] I like that.