[They're not breathing as hard anymore. It's true. Their heart has started to beat a fair bit slower, now that they've the time to breathe. It does not change the fact that they're dying, that they will die inevitably, and leave him behind. It would be safer to simply leave things as they are. Get up, and leave. If he grows close to the creature sitting before him, however impossible it may seem...he will have to learn to lose them.]
[Perhaps he has learned to lose already. Most living things do.]
[As they did. Even as they struggled, fought ever so hard - to not get attached.]
should find someplace safer
[It's perhaps a bit too matter-of-fact, a bit too dismissive. But what else are they meant to say?]
[That's their problem; they like the world too much. Even shattered as it had been, blistered and broken through by the Immortal Cell that so corrupted the world, they had never fathomed for an instant what it might be to not live in it. That was their crime and their curse. They'd wanted to live so very badly.]
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[Perhaps he has learned to lose already. Most living things do.]
[As they did. Even as they struggled, fought ever so hard - to not get attached.]
should find someplace safer
[It's perhaps a bit too matter-of-fact, a bit too dismissive. But what else are they meant to say?]
[That's their problem; they like the world too much. Even shattered as it had been, blistered and broken through by the Immortal Cell that so corrupted the world, they had never fathomed for an instant what it might be to not live in it. That was their crime and their curse. They'd wanted to live so very badly.]
[What creature does not want to live?]
[It's what all creatures must want.]