Somewhere about halfway through all that, he'd swiveled to face her more fully and when she wraps her arms around herself, he reaches out to give her arm a light squeeze. His expression softens a little, because she seems a lot younger than most of the Summoned brought here. Which probably makes everything here way scarier to her than some.
"I know it's a lot at once. And it's not that you get numb. But people are usually pretty adaptable, in my experience. It's not all bad, especially once you find your feet. I don't think that makes it 'losing'. That would be giving up on trying at all."
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Somewhere about halfway through all that, he'd swiveled to face her more fully and when she wraps her arms around herself, he reaches out to give her arm a light squeeze. His expression softens a little, because she seems a lot younger than most of the Summoned brought here. Which probably makes everything here way scarier to her than some.
"I know it's a lot at once. And it's not that you get numb. But people are usually pretty adaptable, in my experience. It's not all bad, especially once you find your feet. I don't think that makes it 'losing'. That would be giving up on trying at all."