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Tazenhani
How did it come to be like this? Wasn't he supposed to be the one comforting her? He had upset her to begin with. Shouldn't he be rectifying that? Not breaking down himself?
But he couldn't do much more than lean into her when she hugged him. Rest against her as he tried to sort out the emotions that prevented him from occupying any clear thoughts. With her, it didn't seem to matter what he said, how he said it or what emotions he carried; somehow, she understood him, somehow she accepted all that and let him be simply him. There really was no one like her. And the sudden need to let her know that, to try and somehow convey that, had him wrapping his free arm around her, holding her as close as he could manage in their strange embrace.
She just held him against her as best she could. It was....different, doing the comforting, but it was necessary. And so she continued to hold him against her, stroking his cheek with her thumb in silence. When ever he was ready to talk, she would listen.