[Her stare, for the little bit she looks at him instead of being directed elsewhere as a consequence of his hold, is blank. He probably wouldn't like how that doesn't change the more he speaks...though that doesn't mean the sluggish lump in her skull isn't trying its best to work through his words.
Her name is Ryder...? She knows the words individually, somewhere in there -- a lingering familiarity that she can't get too close to, but can see behind some fence. Trying to string them together made the fence get some barbed wire and electrify. Something is more than she is, and even has a name... What...was it?
So close to her death, she doesn't yet have the dark, inky black tears Teo cries now, and her face is still dripping. It'll be hard to notice the cloudy tears that well up in Ryder's eyes. Something doesn't understand. She can't. Ryder struggles with it, too.]
Mmuh-uhhh...
[Both of their hands fumble on their way to trying to grasp at his front, and Ryder's are shaking.]
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Her name is Ryder...? She knows the words individually, somewhere in there -- a lingering familiarity that she can't get too close to, but can see behind some fence. Trying to string them together made the fence get some barbed wire and electrify. Something is more than she is, and even has a name... What...was it?
So close to her death, she doesn't yet have the dark, inky black tears Teo cries now, and her face is still dripping. It'll be hard to notice the cloudy tears that well up in Ryder's eyes. Something doesn't understand. She can't. Ryder struggles with it, too.]
Mmuh-uhhh...
[Both of their hands fumble on their way to trying to grasp at his front, and Ryder's are shaking.]
Mmm...