[It's a jarring experience to deal with him. Between the man she knows and the one she saw in the memory, between the shadow of a person she sees on the ground and the monster in front of her-she doesn't know how to deal with it.
And so, she doesn't think on it. On any of it. Not how he reminds her of Shin. Not the way he takes his hand away, like he's afraid she might get hurt-like he heard the lingering fear in her heart.
No, she really doesn't want to think on it and instead, she hides her worries in snow doodles. The affirmation, small as it was, is enough to make her continue on. For however long the Batter wants to stay, he'll find the images begin to shift away from cats and flowers to baseballs and vague arcs that would resemble rainbows if there were any color to them.]
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And so, she doesn't think on it. On any of it. Not how he reminds her of Shin. Not the way he takes his hand away, like he's afraid she might get hurt-like he heard the lingering fear in her heart.
No, she really doesn't want to think on it and instead, she hides her worries in snow doodles. The affirmation, small as it was, is enough to make her continue on. For however long the Batter wants to stay, he'll find the images begin to shift away from cats and flowers to baseballs and vague arcs that would resemble rainbows if there were any color to them.]