You're still alive. And yes, there is always pain while one is still alive. Even alone. Especially alone.
[ Vash heard Wolfwood, his eyes blurry but widening a little, but even that...
He could not stop trying. So few people tried for them. Any of them. Wolfwood was one of those few, and he was also trying in his own way. It's why I'm here, ghostly words etching themselves into his heart in blood, a fresh would less immense than the feathered one in front of him, but just as unlikely to heal or be forgotten. ]
But you are in more pain than you need to be. We plants, we survive a lot. But it hurts. It hurts the most when nobody does anything, or they make it worse, because then it goes on, and on, and on.
But it can be helped, some things will make the pain less. I have gotten good at patching, over time.
Or I can hold you for a while. That sometimes helps, too.
[ He did not say out loud that he was not going to let this one destroy everyone, everything. Threats were the last thing that was needed. And he was not trying to dodge.
People - humans, but not only - could do, and did, horrible things when they were afraid.
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[ Vash heard Wolfwood, his eyes blurry but widening a little, but even that...
He could not stop trying. So few people tried for them. Any of them. Wolfwood was one of those few, and he was also trying in his own way. It's why I'm here, ghostly words etching themselves into his heart in blood, a fresh would less immense than the feathered one in front of him, but just as unlikely to heal or be forgotten. ]
But you are in more pain than you need to be. We plants, we survive a lot. But it hurts. It hurts the most when nobody does anything, or they make it worse, because then it goes on, and on, and on.
But it can be helped, some things will make the pain less. I have gotten good at patching, over time.
Or I can hold you for a while. That sometimes helps, too.
[ He did not say out loud that he was not going to let this one destroy everyone, everything. Threats were the last thing that was needed. And he was not trying to dodge.
People - humans, but not only - could do, and did, horrible things when they were afraid.
Vash was not afraid.
Not for himself, at any rate. ]