[Oof, you can almost see her deflate when he says that. But she picks herself right back up again as she puts her hands around her cup of tea, trying to focus on the heat of surface that spreads to her fingers instead.]
Mm. I can't argue against that.
[The cruel inevitability wouldn't suddenly disappear just because they were somehow able to see each other again. It didn't change who Hiro was or what he had to do for an unfathomable eternity.]
... And that's why I'll probably have to leave first.
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Mm. I can't argue against that.
[The cruel inevitability wouldn't suddenly disappear just because they were somehow able to see each other again. It didn't change who Hiro was or what he had to do for an unfathomable eternity.]
... And that's why I'll probably have to leave first.