We can't help being in pain, but we can decide what to do with it. You aren't using that pain to lash out or hurt anybody. You're making sure of that. That's strength.
[ he just kind of looks up at them for a moment. not quite defeated, but searching that expressionless face for something - like looking for answers in the raven queen's mask. ]
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anyway, are you really going to let a statue tell you what to do? they nod, with a sigh.]
...You're doing well. You're doing the right thing right now.
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anyway he's taken worse advice from equally questionable people ]
Yeah? 'ssat?
[ i wrote a lot of nice feelsy tags up there and now have no more words left so he just sounds like a morose puppy. the verbal equivalent of 8C ]
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[a pat on the shoulder.]
We can't help being in pain, but we can decide what to do with it. You aren't using that pain to lash out or hurt anybody. You're making sure of that. That's strength.
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...
[ he just kind of looks up at them for a moment. not quite defeated, but searching that expressionless face for something - like looking for answers in the raven queen's mask. ]
Guess so. [ maybe. it doesn't feel very strong.
after a long, long moment. ] ...thanks.
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[they can be a parent if you need them to be. they seem pretty fine listening to a bird boy have an emotional crisis, at least.]