[ It's clearly a release that needed to happen, but that doesn't mean Maruki doesn't hate it, just as he hates any time he sees someone cry. All his life, it's ripped right through him. One of the hardest things to learn throughout his schooling was to turn off his sympathy crying. It's just in his nature to feel someone else's pain right alongside his own, to want to take it on for them, and pure expressions of grief like this are the worst of all.
He's up, out of the papasan, crouching in front of Kel's instead. A tentative hand to one of Kel's shaking shoulders where he's hunched over. ]
It's alright. Not the situation, but this. You can cry as long as you need to. I'm here.
[ A pause, and he squeezes Kel's shoulder gently. ]
I'm so sorry to hear about your friends. None of you deserved whatever happened to you.
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[ It's clearly a release that needed to happen, but that doesn't mean Maruki doesn't hate it, just as he hates any time he sees someone cry. All his life, it's ripped right through him. One of the hardest things to learn throughout his schooling was to turn off his sympathy crying. It's just in his nature to feel someone else's pain right alongside his own, to want to take it on for them, and pure expressions of grief like this are the worst of all.
He's up, out of the papasan, crouching in front of Kel's instead. A tentative hand to one of Kel's shaking shoulders where he's hunched over. ]
It's alright. Not the situation, but this. You can cry as long as you need to. I'm here.
[ A pause, and he squeezes Kel's shoulder gently. ]
I'm so sorry to hear about your friends. None of you deserved whatever happened to you.