[ For once, he doesn't turn away from the offer of comfort, doesn't hide his pain behind a mask of stoicism and dogged independence. Perhaps his willingness to let someone in speaks to just how deeply the experience had shaken him; perhaps it has more to do with just who it is reaching for him.
Perhaps it's a bit of both. In any case, Evie eases Joel's hands away from his face, wraps her arms around him, and Joel lets her. He goes willingly into her embrace, hands clutching desperately at her as he buries his face helplessly in her shoulder. ]
Sarah...
[ It's a lament at once tender with fresh pain, and all but bursting with grief that's been kept buried for two decades. ]
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Perhaps it's a bit of both. In any case, Evie eases Joel's hands away from his face, wraps her arms around him, and Joel lets her. He goes willingly into her embrace, hands clutching desperately at her as he buries his face helplessly in her shoulder. ]
Sarah...
[ It's a lament at once tender with fresh pain, and all but bursting with grief that's been kept buried for two decades. ]