(Lup is being too casual for the moment, too colloquial; Lucretia winces at her off-handed remark about 'complete assholes'. She knows that as much she wants to stew in this and think and think, Lup won't let her, and she doesn't know how she feels about that. Thinking of Taako believing so strongly that she would have done this to hurt him, as if more than ninety years spent together count for nothing? It's hard to swallow. She wants time to be able to process it.
She reaches up, puts her hand onto Lup's and holds it tight.)
Okay, (she says slowly, trying to think instead of lose herself to this future scenario. Merle is the person to ask. Got it. She will go and ask him about it and she'll take Lup with her because she's too uncertain to go on her own, not know that she knows this. Did she take something from Merle too, or just his memories of the mission, and of Lup?
Knowing Lup disappeared entirely before any of this happened adds another layer of confusion and sadness to the whole thing because she can't imagine the terror of that. How Taako, and Barry would have reacted. Even imagining it makes her heart ache and that distress is mirroring on her face now, expression crumpling.
Lucretia finds she can't answer anything else. She simply nods, and gives Lup's hand a squeeze to remind herself that, despite everything she's just learned, she is still there.)
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She reaches up, puts her hand onto Lup's and holds it tight.)
Okay, (she says slowly, trying to think instead of lose herself to this future scenario. Merle is the person to ask. Got it. She will go and ask him about it and she'll take Lup with her because she's too uncertain to go on her own, not know that she knows this. Did she take something from Merle too, or just his memories of the mission, and of Lup?
Knowing Lup disappeared entirely before any of this happened adds another layer of confusion and sadness to the whole thing because she can't imagine the terror of that. How Taako, and Barry would have reacted. Even imagining it makes her heart ache and that distress is mirroring on her face now, expression crumpling.
Lucretia finds she can't answer anything else. She simply nods, and gives Lup's hand a squeeze to remind herself that, despite everything she's just learned, she is still there.)