[network] Event: Long & Lost [NIGHT 217]

[snowblindmods]

it's been so long between the words we spoke
will you be there up on the shore, I hope

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cw: suicide

[spoileralert]

[ She rubs her neck, feeling very awkward. ]

Sorry. I didn't mean to say that. I guess it's just... good to have it out there, maybe?

[godsspeed]

It's "been going around". [ He's not absolutely sure he's using the phrase correctly, but it's what she said to reassure him when he said something he didn't mean to. ]

Some people find simply telling their problems to another can be helpful. Even if they receive no response, or any confirmation that anyone is there to hear them at all. I don't know that this will be the case for you, but. It is something. You are not alone.

[spoileralert]

[ She smiles, just a little. It's as comforting as it is amusing to have her own words thrown back at her. ]

I don't think it would mean much if nobody heard. It'd be just the same as not saying anything at all, you know?

[godsspeed]

I'm not sure. I don't understand it myself. [ Angels don't really have feelings in the same way humans do. They just weren't built for it. ] But people have been speaking to us even when they weren't sure we existed at all for thousands of years. Some manage to take solace in it even without knowing.

[spoileralert]

True.

[ At least, she assumes it's true, from what she knows about people and religion in general. ]

Maybe I'm just not built that way.

[godsspeed]

I understand. I've never felt more lost than I do here, knowing that my brothers and sisters cannot hear me. [ Again, not what he meant to say. But he's getting used to the idea that this is just how conversation is going to have to work for tonight. ]

But we can speak and listen to each other, at least. That must count for something.

[spoileralert]

Not being alone always counts for something.

[ So says the one who's petrified of being alone. ]