[ he answers easily. deep down, he's missed her all his life - evidently, since she always appeared in situations like this ("always", if he had a nickel every time some latent desire/ideal existence-fueled falsehood had been impressed on him he'd have two nickels but it was weird that it happened twice) - but he'd been too small when she'd died to really remember her in true detail. the bluntness of the reply was that of someone who had long accepted this as reality. ]
As in, she died way before all this. [ a vague wave around them. y'know. ] Even if my world's restored, she won't come back. So that'll never be the future, for me.
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[ he answers easily. deep down, he's missed her all his life - evidently, since she always appeared in situations like this ("always", if he had a nickel every time some latent desire/ideal existence-fueled falsehood had been impressed on him he'd have two nickels but it was weird that it happened twice) - but he'd been too small when she'd died to really remember her in true detail. the bluntness of the reply was that of someone who had long accepted this as reality. ]
As in, she died way before all this. [ a vague wave around them. y'know. ] Even if my world's restored, she won't come back. So that'll never be the future, for me.
[ he glances up at tony. zenith, huh. ]