"I haven't seen them since I left for training." Detached; he's got to be detached, if he hopes to make it through the explanation. "And so whatever she might think -- she's writing to a stranger. She can't know the worst of it. Which, for the last ten years -- has been all of it. And I don't have the words to put a good face on any of it, because there isn't one. But you -- "
He catches a bit of Alistair's shirt in his fist.
"You can talk to anyone. I think -- you can do something for each other that... I'm not capable of doing."
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"I haven't seen them since I left for training." Detached; he's got to be detached, if he hopes to make it through the explanation. "And so whatever she might think -- she's writing to a stranger. She can't know the worst of it. Which, for the last ten years -- has been all of it. And I don't have the words to put a good face on any of it, because there isn't one. But you -- "
He catches a bit of Alistair's shirt in his fist.
"You can talk to anyone. I think -- you can do something for each other that... I'm not capable of doing."