[Insensitive? Maybe a little. But ... well, it's the truth. And how can Heather be upset at him for speaking the truth? It's something she knows.]
[She lets out a sort of sobbish laugh, reaching up to rub an eye again. It looks painful. They're always sore and exhausted-looking, but right now they look like she's been scrubbing them with steel wool.]
You figure?
[Sniffing, she pulls the towel from around her shoulders and rubs her hand dry on it, although there hadn't been much to wipe off of her face, tear-wise. The single nice thing about dehydration: shuts those tear ducts up good and hard.]
... Feels like... feels like it's gonna be a lot longer than the next few days.
Like maybe just forever.
[It's almost hilariously dramatic-sounding, especially coming from a girl like Heather. She'd experienced so many losses before. All of them lingered in one way or another, but ... well, she did move on. She'd moved on from Phoenix, moved on from James and L and Old Snake and all the others... hell, even from her father's, although that had only been because he'd returned.]
[But this was different. She sort of knows she'll be embarrassed for saying that later, but she's emotional enough right now that she can't bring herself to care.]
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[She lets out a sort of sobbish laugh, reaching up to rub an eye again. It looks painful. They're always sore and exhausted-looking, but right now they look like she's been scrubbing them with steel wool.]
You figure?
[Sniffing, she pulls the towel from around her shoulders and rubs her hand dry on it, although there hadn't been much to wipe off of her face, tear-wise. The single nice thing about dehydration: shuts those tear ducts up good and hard.]
... Feels like... feels like it's gonna be a lot longer than the next few days.
Like maybe just forever.
[It's almost hilariously dramatic-sounding, especially coming from a girl like Heather. She'd experienced so many losses before. All of them lingered in one way or another, but ... well, she did move on. She'd moved on from Phoenix, moved on from James and L and Old Snake and all the others... hell, even from her father's, although that had only been because he'd returned.]
[But this was different. She sort of knows she'll be embarrassed for saying that later, but she's emotional enough right now that she can't bring herself to care.]