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7. Human
They stand by the headstone, praying to the man who is gone and silent. The evening surrounding them is cool, cool, cool, as if he is omnipresent and ever loyal.
It is only right to be human, to be imperfect.
It wasn't his fault, but his death had been (and is) the ire of his superiors.
They don't know what it's like. They don't understand how much the man means to her.
It's only human.
"You'll never be alone," Subaru tells her, twin teal irises searching the depths of her soul, "because I'll always be there for you and so will Teda. He loves you and he'll never leave you."
She cries a little harder into her shoulder, holds onto her a little longer than she normally would have, tears down the thick layers confining her heart a little more.
It's only human.
