dendroculi | [homophonic] catchall for kaveh

I will.

[there's a pause, and then - ]

...being able to come back to you and Shu helps a lot, you know. It's... nice, not to come back to an empty, silent room.

[Awww, Nahida. Kaveh's gaze softens a little with warmth and heartbreak both. He crouches down to look her in the eyes.]

I'm sorry we didn't help you sooner, Nahida. Sumeru failed you for too long.

[He knows, of course, that the average citizen--even including himself, if he's feeling very generous--would have had no way of knowing the truth of what was happening. But he can't help but think it shouldn't have taken hundreds (thousands, in his mind) of years and the presence of an Outlander to wake them up to the truth.]

No, Sumeru didn't fail me! None of you failed me. I'm the one who...

[a pig picks that exact moment to rush by

and you will probably already know what this memory is even before you click it. lasts until 10:07!

when she comes out of it, her hand is at her forehead again.]

[Me belatedly realizing that Kaveh should, like, be doing the same thing. IRMINSUL BULLSHIT.]

Who's...?

...nnh.

[give her a second. her head really hurts.

she already knows, from the memshare earlier in the week - when she'd erased her. she knows, and that makes the pain of this memory a little more raw, because now she has the context to know what she had meant by that.]

[Well, it's a little easier to push things away if he needs to focus on her, which he does.]

Nahida? Are you alright?

[and it's a little easier to push things away if she needs to focus on not worrying him, so - she takes a breath, lowers her hand from her head, and nods.]

...mhm. It's just a little headache.