It's not to late to start, if that's something you want.
[A 'maybe' is good enough for her, and all the affirmation she needs to save this particular train of thought away for another time. Another time, because it feels innapropriate to push so hard so early, and because somewhere in the game of pattycake Remington seems to have started banging its flippers into the snow and inadvertantly gotten one stuck.
Oh dear.
Shizuo's question goes ignored a minute while Riza picks herself up and goes to unlodge Remy's flipper from the snow. Then, once that's done, she turns back.]
I gave up on the idea of having a family a long time ago.
[Her expression's accepting, though colored by faint wistfulness. Not for any forsaken family, but over the number of future paths closed to her now.]
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[A 'maybe' is good enough for her, and all the affirmation she needs to save this particular train of thought away for another time. Another time, because it feels innapropriate to push so hard so early, and because somewhere in the game of pattycake Remington seems to have started banging its flippers into the snow and inadvertantly gotten one stuck.
Oh dear.
Shizuo's question goes ignored a minute while Riza picks herself up and goes to unlodge Remy's flipper from the snow. Then, once that's done, she turns back.]
I gave up on the idea of having a family a long time ago.
[Her expression's accepting, though colored by faint wistfulness. Not for any forsaken family, but over the number of future paths closed to her now.]