[Kelsey?! His proper given name is Kelsey? She didn't know that!!
Of course, that small surprise quickly takes a backseat as she listens attentively. Hearing that Sunny didn't leave his house for 4 years is a big shock. She didn't know that! What happened? Did his anxiety get the better of him? Or was is something else?
For Sunny to have lost his eye due to another friend's mental breakdown makes it so much worse. Just what had happened between all these young people for them to be so psychologically damaged? When Kel's stoy culminates in Sunny's apparent suicide and his own fatal failed attempt so save him, she hardly knows what to say... until he starts blaming himself for what happened.]
Kel, it's not your fault. That's simply not true. You sacrificed your own life trying to save Sunny, and the outcome was out of your control. You did all you could.
[If she remembered the memory she gave up for a safe Crossing, she'd feel like a hypocrite saying these things - but she can't remember the crushing guilt of having forsaken her people for the sake of the outside world, and that allows her to speak clearly and calmly.]
I don't know what caused them - Sunny and your mutual friend - to have been in such a bad state of mind, but I don't want you to blame yourself for what happened.
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Of course, that small surprise quickly takes a backseat as she listens attentively. Hearing that Sunny didn't leave his house for 4 years is a big shock. She didn't know that! What happened? Did his anxiety get the better of him? Or was is something else?
For Sunny to have lost his eye due to another friend's mental breakdown makes it so much worse. Just what had happened between all these young people for them to be so psychologically damaged? When Kel's stoy culminates in Sunny's apparent suicide and his own fatal failed attempt so save him, she hardly knows what to say... until he starts blaming himself for what happened.]
Kel, it's not your fault. That's simply not true. You sacrificed your own life trying to save Sunny, and the outcome was out of your control. You did all you could.
[If she remembered the memory she gave up for a safe Crossing, she'd feel like a hypocrite saying these things - but she can't remember the crushing guilt of having forsaken her people for the sake of the outside world, and that allows her to speak clearly and calmly.]
I don't know what caused them - Sunny and your mutual friend - to have been in such a bad state of mind, but I don't want you to blame yourself for what happened.