[ See, the upside of all of this is at least that Illya has never really had to deal with horrible grown ups before. Talk of those always feels distant - like news stories, like something that wouldn't actually happen in real life. Even though she feels scared about the idea of being a Dreamer, she isn't really considering that Ai as a person might be lying to her here.
So she nods. ]
.. okay.
[ That does sound kind of nice, after all. Being helped. Making it less scary. After all-- ]
I'd.. like for it to be less scary. [ She looks a little flustered as she says it, like she's embarrassed, but she'll take that reassuring hand she's being offered here. ] Um, if that's not a dumb thing to say..
[ Surely most people deal with the entire Dreamer thing a lot better than Illya currently is doing, right? ]
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So she nods. ]
.. okay.
[ That does sound kind of nice, after all. Being helped. Making it less scary. After all-- ]
I'd.. like for it to be less scary. [ She looks a little flustered as she says it, like she's embarrassed, but she'll take that reassuring hand she's being offered here. ] Um, if that's not a dumb thing to say..
[ Surely most people deal with the entire Dreamer thing a lot better than Illya currently is doing, right? ]