A couple people have mentioned tutors. I'll... definitely be looking into it.
[As a way to protect others, more than anything. Keeping himself quiet and safe is a secondary concern. Everyone else is primary. If he doesn't even remember that year, there must be a reason for it.]
[One he doesn't wish on anyone.]
[His eyes actually close at the breeze. It's welcome. So very welcome after all that time at the Castle. In space. It's like flying, a little -- like when he feels his mind and the Black connect, like feeling air of alien worlds across alien metal.]
[He's a little lost in the thought -- it's always easy to slip back into that particular memory, a good one, thankfully -- when the other speaks up. He blinks a few times, shaking it off, and looking over at him.]
That's really kind of you. It seems like everyone wants to lend an ear. [And he doesn't know what to say to it. If it's even right to accept. So, naturally, he takes up the conversation on the other words.]
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[As a way to protect others, more than anything. Keeping himself quiet and safe is a secondary concern. Everyone else is primary. If he doesn't even remember that year, there must be a reason for it.]
[One he doesn't wish on anyone.]
[His eyes actually close at the breeze. It's welcome. So very welcome after all that time at the Castle. In space. It's like flying, a little -- like when he feels his mind and the Black connect, like feeling air of alien worlds across alien metal.]
[He's a little lost in the thought -- it's always easy to slip back into that particular memory, a good one, thankfully -- when the other speaks up. He blinks a few times, shaking it off, and looking over at him.]
That's really kind of you. It seems like everyone wants to lend an ear. [And he doesn't know what to say to it. If it's even right to accept. So, naturally, he takes up the conversation on the other words.]
But it didn't work out? If it's all right to ask.