[The answer is your cat, Katerina. Your cat is staring right at him.
Victor lets the rest go without comment, but he knows what she really means, of course; he hears the words and the good intention behind them even if they fall on deaf ears. People mean well when they insist this broken part of his heart will recover, that the world will regain its color, that his mother would want him to keep being the sometimes sweet, sometimes shy boy he'd used to be and not let loss change him.
He knows all of it, but he still can't stop. He doesn't expect others to understand.]
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... Cat familiars?
[The answer is your cat, Katerina. Your cat is staring right at him.
Victor lets the rest go without comment, but he knows what she really means, of course; he hears the words and the good intention behind them even if they fall on deaf ears. People mean well when they insist this broken part of his heart will recover, that the world will regain its color, that his mother would want him to keep being the sometimes sweet, sometimes shy boy he'd used to be and not let loss change him.
He knows all of it, but he still can't stop. He doesn't expect others to understand.]