[Siffrin is struck by the sudden realization that...]
[...Shoka feels just as awkward about this as they do, doesn't she? She's trying to get through it with a lot more words than they usually do, but... hm.]
[If they would just talk to her...]
[They feel like they've forgotten something.]
[But, it sounds like it helped her too?]
[...]
[. . .]
I'm... not very good, at talking. [Big surprise! But admitting that aloud feels like it has weight, in a way kind of adjacent to the things they've already said. They feel like they couldn't admit it to themself half the time, at least until they were very deep into the time loops.] But I can try?
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[...Shoka feels just as awkward about this as they do, doesn't she? She's trying to get through it with a lot more words than they usually do, but... hm.]
[If they would just talk to her...]
[They feel like they've forgotten something.]
[But, it sounds like it helped her too?]
[...]
[. . .]
I'm... not very good, at talking. [Big surprise! But admitting that aloud feels like it has weight, in a way kind of adjacent to the things they've already said. They feel like they couldn't admit it to themself half the time, at least until they were very deep into the time loops.] But I can try?