[Were they someone with a voice, perhaps the word would have been tinged with a quiet, painful nostalgia. As it is, they can simply incline their head. They had someone like that, once. The only person who had devoted that sort of quiet care, that undue effort, to a ragged, dying, tainted thing like them.]
[Perhaps they had recognized that kindred spirit. But others were dying, and had not stopped to help the feeble stranger with the corrupted lungs.]
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[Were they someone with a voice, perhaps the word would have been tinged with a quiet, painful nostalgia. As it is, they can simply incline their head. They had someone like that, once. The only person who had devoted that sort of quiet care, that undue effort, to a ragged, dying, tainted thing like them.]
[Perhaps they had recognized that kindred spirit. But others were dying, and had not stopped to help the feeble stranger with the corrupted lungs.]
[They simply... had.]
[Out of kindness.]
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