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Tazenhani 
"I know..." It was about all he was able to say past the renewed constriction in his throat. He would have been able to suppress the emotion, to hide it if she hadn't done this, if she hadn't brought it up again. But she had and in doing so she had picked away that seal over the raw and bare emotion he was still struggling with.
"You're...it's fine..." Biting his bottom lip, he turned his eyes out the window again, rubbing her back as if to reassure her that he really was despite the quiver in his voice. It took him a moment to realize that she had asked about him and that he hadn't exactly responded with the proper wording, so he stumbled over himself a little bit to fix it. "I'm fine..."
Oh man. He sounded all pitiful and stuff. Shaking her head she sighed once more. He was so apparently not alright. Not FINE either. Silly boy. "
Okay. Well if you don't talk to me about it you should talk to someone else about it at least," she said. He needed to talk about it, feel whatever it was he was feeling.
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But, I suppose we should study. Or I can practice nonverbals. Perhaps try to levitate all of your books above your head and see how long I can hold them there without dropping them," she suggested with a smirk.