I swear I still believe but I don't know
"Does it matter, when she didn't question you? You were hers, all hers, and I stepped back into her life as a stranger. She didn't want me." And it feels sour to say such things, when none of it was intended as malice. None of it was her fault. He reaches out to touch a hand to Remi's shoulder, if nothing else than to anchor him to the beach and maybe to Ronin as well, the hunter politely gazing away from both husband and daughter, as though this is something he can just pretend isn't there.
"You tried to kill them?" Ronin wants to let his grief take this and shake it between its teeth, to throw it all back at Remi, but there's really no need. And besides, she's still dead after it's all said and done. "I wish I had stayed. I didn't think you were alive. I didn't know."
"You tried to kill them?" Ronin wants to let his grief take this and shake it between its teeth, to throw it all back at Remi, but there's really no need. And besides, she's still dead after it's all said and done. "I wish I had stayed. I didn't think you were alive. I didn't know."
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