[He needs a few moments to breathe and reprocess everything that's being said, still curled up and feeling a thousand different emotions. He's not entirely sure he follows the point Nate is making, but he'll cling to Nate saying it's not that he's an abomination, at least.]
All right.
[His voice is quiet, and he's filled with regret and questions he can't ask. How long has Nate felt things for him? Why didn't he even hint at it? Why... A dozen whys and they'll not be voiced.]
All right.
[He needs to focus and keep from hoping, push it down, because there's not a lot of hope when it comes to being unpossessed anyway. This is something that will not happen, and he has to accept that no matter how he wants things to go differently.]
You'd... You'd likely be hurt too. It's better this way.
[Still trying to convince himself, but he'll manage.]
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All right.
[His voice is quiet, and he's filled with regret and questions he can't ask. How long has Nate felt things for him? Why didn't he even hint at it? Why... A dozen whys and they'll not be voiced.]
All right.
[He needs to focus and keep from hoping, push it down, because there's not a lot of hope when it comes to being unpossessed anyway. This is something that will not happen, and he has to accept that no matter how he wants things to go differently.]
You'd... You'd likely be hurt too. It's better this way.
[Still trying to convince himself, but he'll manage.]