When he starts his brief but clearly-painful tale, Heather falls silent completely.
She's often rude and inconsiderate, and often doesn't know when it's the right time to crack a joke and when it isn't. But trauma is different. If there's one thing that she got more sensitive to after Silent Hill, it's how it feels to relive something terrible, and be completely powerless to stop all those feelings from gripping you like a fist the moment the mere thought of those memories even floats into your mind.
She deals with that on a regular basis, like most people who have been through horrible things.
And she can tell when it's happening to someone else.
So she just listens.
No commentary from the peanut gallery here.
When he ends on that thoughtful little note, she just ... looks at him. This whole conversation had taken a serious turn quite awhile back, but there's more sympathy in her expression right now than ever before, even when he was talking about bodies and violent crimes. Sympathy... and a certain amount of understanding.
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She's often rude and inconsiderate, and often doesn't know when it's the right time to crack a joke and when it isn't. But trauma is different. If there's one thing that she got more sensitive to after Silent Hill, it's how it feels to relive something terrible, and be completely powerless to stop all those feelings from gripping you like a fist the moment the mere thought of those memories even floats into your mind.
She deals with that on a regular basis, like most people who have been through horrible things.
And she can tell when it's happening to someone else.
So she just listens.
No commentary from the peanut gallery here.
When he ends on that thoughtful little note, she just ... looks at him. This whole conversation had taken a serious turn quite awhile back, but there's more sympathy in her expression right now than ever before, even when he was talking about bodies and violent crimes. Sympathy... and a certain amount of understanding.
"... I'm so sorry."