❰ no he doesn't understand. he barely even had a thought to spare for hurt feelings for over a decade, let alone understanding how they work or what do to to mitigate them.
he figured that once you broke something like this, it stayed broke.
now onni's talking about how they've hurt each other and they're fine, and lalli's brow knits. ❱ It's different, ❰ he says. ❱ We're family. ❰ you stick with your family, no matter what, and that family sticks with you. it's one of the two things he has unyielding faith in: his gods, and the fact that onni and tuuri would stick by him until the infection tears them apart. it's already gotten one of them, but that doesn't change the fact that she would've stuck with him if she could've. ❱
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he figured that once you broke something like this, it stayed broke.
now onni's talking about how they've hurt each other and they're fine, and lalli's brow knits. ❱ It's different, ❰ he says. ❱ We're family. ❰ you stick with your family, no matter what, and that family sticks with you. it's one of the two things he has unyielding faith in: his gods, and the fact that onni and tuuri would stick by him until the infection tears them apart. it's already gotten one of them, but that doesn't change the fact that she would've stuck with him if she could've. ❱