[ It had been an offer, or at least a prelude to an offer, to try to pass some of it along. But does he want to, really? Like he said before: he loves Byerly as he is, stormy and sensitive. And the way he learned wasn't painless. He couldn't actually put Byerly through it.
Instead: ]
You've lost everything before, By. More than once. I am not saying that because I expect you to lose it again. I only want you to try to remember it. You don't have to be afraid. You can try to think about it without panic, because you have already shown yourself you can survive worse. The worst things that will ever happen to you—until we die, of course, at the ages of a hundred and a hundred and one—they have already happened. And if anything like it happens again, I will be there, [ with his head tilted back to let By see his cheeky smile, ] so it won't be so bad.
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Date: 2023-03-23 03:18 am (UTC)[ It had been an offer, or at least a prelude to an offer, to try to pass some of it along. But does he want to, really? Like he said before: he loves Byerly as he is, stormy and sensitive. And the way he learned wasn't painless. He couldn't actually put Byerly through it.
Instead: ]
You've lost everything before, By. More than once. I am not saying that because I expect you to lose it again. I only want you to try to remember it. You don't have to be afraid. You can try to think about it without panic, because you have already shown yourself you can survive worse. The worst things that will ever happen to you—until we die, of course, at the ages of a hundred and a hundred and one—they have already happened. And if anything like it happens again, I will be there, [ with his head tilted back to let By see his cheeky smile, ] so it won't be so bad.