[His voice is soft, so very soft, and thick with an emotion that's deeper and sadder than just relief — because he remembers, of course, the other half of the fast-flipping coin, the side where he never told Kakyoin anything because there was no Kakyoin left to tell.
He could make it, he knows, so that he forgot too. So that it really was like it never happened, and no one would know any different.
But he won't. It's his job to remember. That's his responsibility, as the one who survived in both timelines.]
Your throat hurt from the tube they put down it. I was holding Hierophant's hand.
[He laughs weakly, and it wobbles.]
You wouldn't put him away. You kept him out the whole time. Out of spite, I told Polnareff. Remember...? He was trying to get me to go take a nap.
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[His voice is soft, so very soft, and thick with an emotion that's deeper and sadder than just relief — because he remembers, of course, the other half of the fast-flipping coin, the side where he never told Kakyoin anything because there was no Kakyoin left to tell.
He could make it, he knows, so that he forgot too. So that it really was like it never happened, and no one would know any different.
But he won't. It's his job to remember. That's his responsibility, as the one who survived in both timelines.]
Your throat hurt from the tube they put down it. I was holding Hierophant's hand.
[He laughs weakly, and it wobbles.]
You wouldn't put him away. You kept him out the whole time. Out of spite, I told Polnareff. Remember...? He was trying to get me to go take a nap.