[Ellie's hand is strong, and she helps him up with no trouble, though he probably outweighs her by a good bit.
But the emotions that bloom up in her mind are both unsettling and obviously not her own -- she's felt plenty like them, but these fly up and choke her because she's not prepared. After a second she can hold them at arm's length, like she's reading them on his face, but it's fucking unsettling..]
Ah. Fuck.
[She breathes it out -- and at the same time she's dealing with this, she realizes that this guy got hers.
And it's... a deluge of grief. A lifetime of loss, and guilt, and something desperately numb and lonely. This girl's at rock fucking bottom.
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[Ellie's hand is strong, and she helps him up with no trouble, though he probably outweighs her by a good bit.
But the emotions that bloom up in her mind are both unsettling and obviously not her own -- she's felt plenty like them, but these fly up and choke her because she's not prepared. After a second she can hold them at arm's length, like she's reading them on his face, but it's fucking unsettling..]
Ah. Fuck.
[She breathes it out -- and at the same time she's dealing with this, she realizes that this guy got hers.
And it's... a deluge of grief. A lifetime of loss, and guilt, and something desperately numb and lonely. This girl's at rock fucking bottom.
Ellie yanks her hand back as if burned.]