[It's all Kaneda has to say as the weariness starts to show in his voice, too. Even just his hesitance to go into detail is enough, and when it came to Ken Amada, there's no sugar coating anything. Everything the boy went through now was bad, he can only imagine what he was like before that. They'd certainly talked. Ken had told him he wanted to die--to just stop existing. And for as much as Kaneda told him that line of thinking was bullshit...he wasn't there for when it was the ONLY line of thinking.
That's jarring...
A shaky breath into the comm takes over, as he sinks against that lamppost.]
I've seen people at that level back home. Not something a 12 year old kid should have to deal with. [But the world was never that kind, was it?] I kinda wish I was...but it looks like you guys pulled him through, right? I mean...he wouldn't be so 'okay' without your guys' help.
[An attempt to at least lighten up this...incredibly heavy conversation. Futile, he knows, but Jaime wasn't wrong in the slightest about him. Loud...an immovable pillar. That's just what Kaneda was.]
...So why now? What's got you telling me this now?
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[It's all Kaneda has to say as the weariness starts to show in his voice, too. Even just his hesitance to go into detail is enough, and when it came to Ken Amada, there's no sugar coating anything. Everything the boy went through now was bad, he can only imagine what he was like before that. They'd certainly talked. Ken had told him he wanted to die--to just stop existing. And for as much as Kaneda told him that line of thinking was bullshit...he wasn't there for when it was the ONLY line of thinking.
That's jarring...
A shaky breath into the comm takes over, as he sinks against that lamppost.]
I've seen people at that level back home. Not something a 12 year old kid should have to deal with. [But the world was never that kind, was it?] I kinda wish I was...but it looks like you guys pulled him through, right? I mean...he wouldn't be so 'okay' without your guys' help.
[An attempt to at least lighten up this...incredibly heavy conversation. Futile, he knows, but Jaime wasn't wrong in the slightest about him. Loud...an immovable pillar. That's just what Kaneda was.]
...So why now? What's got you telling me this now?