[ Bakhura also gives pause before pressing the send button, having grown up with similar trauma of his own related to severed family ties. Soon enough, though: ]
...yeah, no point in holding your breath if they've gone this long without bothering to try and contact you.
...and it does. It's bad enough being an orphan in this life without being told that you're never going to remember the names and the faces of the people that you had called family in another life, too, but... seeing where the other mes ultimately ended up and not wanting the same fate no matter what Retrospec wants for us is what keeps me going, I guess.
[ Fear. The word he's looking for is fear, but he's not going to say that, and certainly not on the network. It's a lot to even talk about his childhood as much as he had, but at least people like Al and Malik get it -- they've been through what he's been through and aren't going to try to tell him that everything will be okay when it's not. ]
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...yeah, no point in holding your breath if they've gone this long without bothering to try and contact you.
...and it does. It's bad enough being an orphan in this life without being told that you're never going to remember the names and the faces of the people that you had called family in another life, too, but... seeing where the other mes ultimately ended up and not wanting the same fate no matter what Retrospec wants for us is what keeps me going, I guess.
[ Fear. The word he's looking for is fear, but he's not going to say that, and certainly not on the network. It's a lot to even talk about his childhood as much as he had, but at least people like Al and Malik get it -- they've been through what he's been through and aren't going to try to tell him that everything will be okay when it's not. ]