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ᴇᴜɢᴜᴇɴᴇ ʜɪᴄᴋs ([personal profile] preseance) wrote in [personal profile] evocation 2020-12-22 06:43 am (UTC)

I'd say that's more good than bad, honestly.

which sounds hypocritical comin' from him, so after a moment his expression twists an' he shakes his head to continue —

For me, I've talked to the dead since I was knee high to a grasshopper. It's part of my life, but it meant that death never held no great mystery for me, and no especial fear. But other folks don't have that foreknowledge, and death — it ought to be something you don't get desensitized to. It should hurt every time. It's when you get too used to it you ought to worry.

So don't give yourself a hard time about it, yeah? Everyone is going to need space to grieve and come to terms with everything that happened. Hell, there ain't exactly a precedent in psychology for what we're doing here, literally experiencing death and then walking away from it with near as no repercussions except in the mind. Folks are sometimes tempted to forget it's a critical organ too, with its own species of hurt.

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