[She remembers their previous conversation about parents; it left her with the impression that his childhood has not been an untroubled one. That invokes a sense of strange kinship in her, as if she can sympathise, but what he says next makes her face twist in a mixture of horror and empathy before she can stop herself.]
I... I'm so sorry. I kind of thought you... well, might not have had a very normal family, or anything of the kind, but...
I'm sorry. You just told me something that had to be hard to say, and I'm babbling. I see, then. That kind of bad thing. Mine... wasn't really that horrible, but it doesn't seem that Wilderness let anyone off easy.
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[She remembers their previous conversation about parents; it left her with the impression that his childhood has not been an untroubled one. That invokes a sense of strange kinship in her, as if she can sympathise, but what he says next makes her face twist in a mixture of horror and empathy before she can stop herself.]
I... I'm so sorry. I kind of thought you... well, might not have had a very normal family, or anything of the kind, but...
I'm sorry. You just told me something that had to be hard to say, and I'm babbling. I see, then. That kind of bad thing. Mine... wasn't really that horrible, but it doesn't seem that Wilderness let anyone off easy.