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[raavashing]

[Late in the evening of the 14th day of May, Wan's voice comes over the networks very briefly. It is haggard, quiet, almost dead sounding. It sat at the edge of being numb to everything.]

I'm sorry.

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[falconkick]

[ when sam speaks, it's quietly and gently, not the voice of a therapist but of one in mourning. silence out of respect for the dead; even if the pyrii's actions and the void itself make no sense to sam, death does. ]

The dead can't forgive you, Wan.

[ wan doesn't need him to say 'it's okay', because it isn't. it won't be for a long time, if ever - but they have to at least try to make a start. ]

And none of us blame you. If you're looking for forgiveness, sorry to say, man. You're gonna have to find it for yourself.

[ sam should write fortune cookies, real talk. ]

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[raavashing]

Not all apologies are requests for forgiveness. I'm not going to ask that of anyone here. The ones I failed the most have already started walking to their end.

[Wan didn't believe he had a right to be forgiven by anyone else. And he knew the pyrii never would. Not in this life. And not in the next because another wasn't going to come for them.]

I'm apologizing because I'm sorry for my failure. Nothing more.