[STOP we're gonna get eustace to honorary orv status without the marriage cries a single tear,

also both of these are such complicated questions, the first one even moreso? how does one say to an acquaintance that actually, she has a very good hunch that Dokja feels nothing but sorrow and pain every time he looks at her? her very good hunch stemming from the fact that she's been emotionally bonded to two idiots for close to a month now?

the easiest way would be not to mention it at all. there's no leak, nothing she lets slip. but maybe that complete absence of emotion is an answer in of itself.]

...I don't know anything about what that guy went through. [so maybe it's actually a terrible idea to remind him,] I don't know the people he was close to or the dumb mistakes he must have made, and as much as I'd like to...

[...hmmmmrnngh, explaining hard. and she calls herself a writer...]

I know that it's a huge pain to have to tell someone all of that. It's way easier to just be around someone who already knows.

[And it's not like Eustace forgot everything, she's pretty sure. Just the stuff with her. thanks eustace.]