"I know how that feels," he said gently, his voice soft.
To an extreeeme degree.
"I'm glad I can give you that now." He paused his speech but kept digging. "I don't think I'd have been the same person if I'd grown up in your world. I don't think the kind of person I am can be...can even come to be in a lot of worlds."
They all seemed so different, so alien, and so much of what he was had come of walking across sun-baked mudlands, and watching countless stars at night, and learning not to lose himself to the fear of the scraping claws at the opening of the caves he'd hidden in.
"But I like to think that if some very different version of me had been there, near you, that that part of me would've been the same. I wish I could have been there for you."
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To an extreeeme degree.
"I'm glad I can give you that now." He paused his speech but kept digging. "I don't think I'd have been the same person if I'd grown up in your world. I don't think the kind of person I am can be...can even come to be in a lot of worlds."
They all seemed so different, so alien, and so much of what he was had come of walking across sun-baked mudlands, and watching countless stars at night, and learning not to lose himself to the fear of the scraping claws at the opening of the caves he'd hidden in.
"But I like to think that if some very different version of me had been there, near you, that that part of me would've been the same. I wish I could have been there for you."