[The idea of getting Joshua anything is quickly abandoned, and Jill sits back on the bed beside him, taking him into her arms instead. For all the ways she can, unfortunately, relate to the bullshit Clive and Joshua have endured over the past eighteen years, she will never understand how it feels to lose control of her Eikon, and so she feels a little bit at a loss for how to soothe the all-encompassing pain he now carries.
Never in her life has she seen him this broken; never in her worst imagination could she have envisioned him looking so lost and distraught, in need of something that simply doesn't exist. Not in the world they live in, anyway.
But she knows she can't think like that – can't get mired in an incomprehensible pain that doesn't even belong to her. For now, she needs to centre herself in his anguish, unfamiliar to her though it may be, and support him in whatever ways he'll allow for.]
All right. It's all right. Take however much time you need.
[It's still not all right, she knows, but what other words are there? All she can do is try her very best to hold him together so that he doesn't turn to dust before her eyes.]
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Never in her life has she seen him this broken; never in her worst imagination could she have envisioned him looking so lost and distraught, in need of something that simply doesn't exist. Not in the world they live in, anyway.
But she knows she can't think like that – can't get mired in an incomprehensible pain that doesn't even belong to her. For now, she needs to centre herself in his anguish, unfamiliar to her though it may be, and support him in whatever ways he'll allow for.]
All right. It's all right. Take however much time you need.
[It's still not all right, she knows, but what other words are there? All she can do is try her very best to hold him together so that he doesn't turn to dust before her eyes.]