[Her brows come down again and she understands because she really can't think of a worse thing to do in all the world than to hurt someone and to her 'hurt someone' expands to encompass hurting their feelings just as much as hurting them physically, perhaps more so really, being hurt emotionally seeming much worse, personally to her at least. Her eyes drift down and stare at a almost blue tinted knee in thought because - it's different if you feel bad about it afterward. It's one thing to hurt someone and be sorry because she knows she's hurt people's feelings often enough and she always feels horrible afterward when she realizes it. And... Clyde sounds like he feels bad over it. He must or he wouldn't think that hurting someone made him not worth being friends over. If he'd hurt people and didn't care that would be different but then he'd never even bring it up in the first place.
It takes a sadly long time for the fact that he's a soldier and 'hurting a lot of people' could mean in the line of duty and possibly even killing them for his job. She hadn't read about anything in the news but...
Her eyebrows squinch down again but this time it's in determination and she finally, slowly, starts to unwind from where she's wrapped around herself. It - hurts and that surprises her but she doesn't stop, moving slower than she usually would and the shivers momentarily abandon her body because it's busy doing too much else and move to her mouth. It makes her have to lock her jaw down as she slowly shifts around to get on her knees in front of him but her eyes search for his even though there's nothing to see except red like insect eyes.
Cautious, not sure it's still an offer, she reaches for his coat and it's not absolution for the past because she doesn't think she can give that but it is an observation about the way he is in the present.
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[Her brows come down again and she understands because she really can't think of a worse thing to do in all the world than to hurt someone and to her 'hurt someone' expands to encompass hurting their feelings just as much as hurting them physically, perhaps more so really, being hurt emotionally seeming much worse, personally to her at least. Her eyes drift down and stare at a almost blue tinted knee in thought because - it's different if you feel bad about it afterward. It's one thing to hurt someone and be sorry because she knows she's hurt people's feelings often enough and she always feels horrible afterward when she realizes it. And... Clyde sounds like he feels bad over it. He must or he wouldn't think that hurting someone made him not worth being friends over. If he'd hurt people and didn't care that would be different but then he'd never even bring it up in the first place.
It takes a sadly long time for the fact that he's a soldier and 'hurting a lot of people' could mean in the line of duty and possibly even killing them for his job. She hadn't read about anything in the news but...
Her eyebrows squinch down again but this time it's in determination and she finally, slowly, starts to unwind from where she's wrapped around herself. It - hurts and that surprises her but she doesn't stop, moving slower than she usually would and the shivers momentarily abandon her body because it's busy doing too much else and move to her mouth. It makes her have to lock her jaw down as she slowly shifts around to get on her knees in front of him but her eyes search for his even though there's nothing to see except red like insect eyes.
Cautious, not sure it's still an offer, she reaches for his coat and it's not absolution for the past because she doesn't think she can give that but it is an observation about the way he is in the present.
"You're not hurting anyone now."