[not again] catchall for nie huaisang

[fishingforcompliments]

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[unanswering]

[it's a little bittersweet, in a way. it's nice she has that, but it's also a reminder he doesn't really, not anymore.

but if they're both dealing with this...

nie huaisang sighs, apparently deciding he may as well.]

It's good that you're both able to visit her, at least. That you remember her. I was too young for that, myself.

[fishingforcompliments]

I am so sorry to hear that.

[even being too young to remember - it hurts, to not have that person there as you are growing up.]

[unanswering]

I had my brother, still. Just as it seems you still had your father.

[it's different. but it's not lesser, he thinks-- there's absence, but maybe that absence makes other bonds stronger.]

I'm sorry that you know it, as well.

[fishingforcompliments]

It is good that you were not alone - but... it would have been better if we had not had to experience losing them in the first place.

[...]

If no one did.

[unanswering]

-well, such isn't the way of the world.

[there's a certain resignation, in that. he's seen enough of it.]

[fishingforcompliments]

Yes... you are quite right.

[unfortunately.]

It is impossible to change the past. One can only move forward and work for a better future.