Yeah. She won't say she's struggling if anybody asks her except to maybe us. [and it makes her a little feral because she never wanted to be that person to leave a friend behind again. (not that she could've stopped it the first time...)

but hands! it's really that she wanted them to hold and let them swing a little. friendly reminder that iwatooshi has a body and they're both still kind of alive, somehow.]

Years and years of practice, but they do call it heartbreak for a reason. [...] Have you been overwhelmed here? A lot of things have happened.

[this is slightly rhetorical because she can sort of guess a few things that might have thrown him for a loop.]