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daniel molloy. ([personal profile] followups) wrote 2025-04-19 02:16 am (UTC)

Oof.

He figured that was the case. Thought it had to have been, expected it, and yet still, somehow—

A rough exhale, like a laugh, and Daniel scrubs his hands over his face as he turns back around. Restless. He crosses his arms for something to do with his hands, and shrugs, though it's clearly an anxious gesture and not a dismissive one.

"I get it, because you were freaking out. You had to bail. I just— it's still a crazy thing to hear. Cognitive dissonance between completely understanding why you left the way you did, why you wouldn't have thought past the moment, needing to leave, and... what was going to go on when the door closed behind you. Because there was never a world where it was nothing."

So it's! Just! Crazy!

Daniel could laugh more. He could cross the room and hug Louis. Contradictions within him.

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