[ He's no stranger to this position. He's had to console all manners of distraught family members and friends of a patient. He's had the shield of distance, lacking familiarity with the grieving party, to keep himself intact.
Reilanin is a little different. He knows her. He doesn't know her family, but he knows her. She is a friend. The distance is less. His heart constricts for her in a different way.
Briefly closing his eyes, he inhales deeply and drops his knees from a crouch to a kneel. He wraps both arms around her smaller frame. ]
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Reilanin is a little different. He knows her. He doesn't know her family, but he knows her. She is a friend. The distance is less. His heart constricts for her in a different way.
Briefly closing his eyes, he inhales deeply and drops his knees from a crouch to a kneel. He wraps both arms around her smaller frame. ]
It's not your fault, Reilanin.