[ Hilda lets out a little laugh at her own expense. ]
Right, silly question.
[ Claude, unsurprisingly, had told her none of that - and it sounded pretty tame in comparison to what she had heard from others who had been kidnapped. At Geralt's reassurance, she's lulled into her own silence. A rarity from her, really. Silence is probably better than having a jumbled mess of thoughts that would make little sense and land as borderline annoying to the man.
Eventually she swallows the bitterness that threatens to rise as she starts to make her way down the ladder to shuffle it over to the next tree. ]
He doesn't have to tell me. I'd just prefer that he talks about it to someone instead of bottling it up. There aren't as many things he has to worry about here but I worry about him all the same. Super rude of him to make me do that. [ But speaking of coping and worry - ] How have you been handling it?
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Right, silly question.
[ Claude, unsurprisingly, had told her none of that - and it sounded pretty tame in comparison to what she had heard from others who had been kidnapped. At Geralt's reassurance, she's lulled into her own silence. A rarity from her, really. Silence is probably better than having a jumbled mess of thoughts that would make little sense and land as borderline annoying to the man.
Eventually she swallows the bitterness that threatens to rise as she starts to make her way down the ladder to shuffle it over to the next tree. ]
He doesn't have to tell me. I'd just prefer that he talks about it to someone instead of bottling it up. There aren't as many things he has to worry about here but I worry about him all the same. Super rude of him to make me do that. [ But speaking of coping and worry - ] How have you been handling it?