Vash's breath hitched, and hitched again, at Wolfwood's words, gentle and kind as they were.
"Yes. It was the day I met you, too." Another reason why he'd thought to get away. So it wouldn't seem as though he couldn't stand that part of the day. It was the best part of that day, that and the fact that Nico and Meryl and you survived."
He paused for a little more. Then started again, slowly. "Rem was-- is. Rem is human." Another hesitation. "Nai and I were not the first Independents to ... be born. There was another one before us, a girl. Nobody expected something like that to happen, and as everything unexpected and unknown, they tried to... understand her. In the scientific experimental way." His voice shook. Trailed off. Picked up again. "Fifty years later, the two of us came. And Rem... was awake from cryosleep when we did. So she - hid us. To make sure it wouldn't happen to us. She raised us. A mother, indeed, a very doting one." This part, there is finally some inflection, some lightness to his voice. "Then we found out about Tessla, almost by chance. And Nai couldn't forgive humans. So he." A hand waved towards the sky, palm quickly folded out of sight.
"He was also a year old. And then humanity worked hard to not disprove him. It was really harsh, in the early days, and the plant suffered so humans can think they can thrive. And so since I couldn't join him, I was against him, I guess."
He took a deep breath, and shifted a little. Not out of the hold, but a little straighter.
"When I heard Rem's voice, and thought of the date... in JuLai, he even... wished me a happy birthday. It was suddenly too much, everything. All the lives destroyed because of me. Rem's was the first, and everyone in the Crash. And all those since." A shrug, of the shoulder Wolfwood was not leaning on. "I'm better now, I think."
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"Yes. It was the day I met you, too." Another reason why he'd thought to get away. So it wouldn't seem as though he couldn't stand that part of the day. It was the best part of that day, that and the fact that Nico and Meryl and you survived."
He paused for a little more. Then started again, slowly. "Rem was-- is. Rem is human." Another hesitation. "Nai and I were not the first Independents to ... be born. There was another one before us, a girl. Nobody expected something like that to happen, and as everything unexpected and unknown, they tried to... understand her. In the scientific experimental way." His voice shook. Trailed off. Picked up again. "Fifty years later, the two of us came. And Rem... was awake from cryosleep when we did. So she - hid us. To make sure it wouldn't happen to us. She raised us. A mother, indeed, a very doting one." This part, there is finally some inflection, some lightness to his voice. "Then we found out about Tessla, almost by chance. And Nai couldn't forgive humans. So he." A hand waved towards the sky, palm quickly folded out of sight.
"He was also a year old. And then humanity worked hard to not disprove him. It was really harsh, in the early days, and the plant suffered so humans can think they can thrive. And so since I couldn't join him, I was against him, I guess."
He took a deep breath, and shifted a little. Not out of the hold, but a little straighter.
"When I heard Rem's voice, and thought of the date... in JuLai, he even... wished me a happy birthday. It was suddenly too much, everything. All the lives destroyed because of me. Rem's was the first, and everyone in the Crash. And all those since." A shrug, of the shoulder Wolfwood was not leaning on. "I'm better now, I think."