[ Of course it's a lot. The killing Ange has been doing has always been a little easier in that sense, never having to put down someone she really cared for.. but she can understand, in concept, how hard it must be.
Especially on someone like Ruby, whose heart just overflows with care for others.
Ange slowly lets go of Ruby's hand, but it's just so she can instead move her own hand up, letting it rest on Ruby's cheek and gently caressing the skin underneath the other's mechanical eye. ]
It's hard. And.. I know you knew that. That it's why you did it. So no one else would have to. [ Not that Ange was present for it. She didn't witness it, but.. with the way she knows Ruby, she can understand what the other must be thinking most of the time.
It's entirely like Ruby to take the hardest things on her own shoulders, just so it doesn't have to be someoen else carrying that weight. ]
.. that's why I made this. Because I'm the one who's supposed to take care of you in a moment like this. [ Just like how Ruby took care of her last month. Saving her from that awful place, caring for her when she couldn't get out of bed. Ange still carries the scars on her skin as a reminder. ] I think this place is starting to take its toll on some people. But.. I just..
[ Ange's voice trails off, a little flustered and shy, but then she shakes her head and continues. ]
I thought that as long as the two of us take good care of each other, we can at least prevent that from happening to either of us.
[ Little does she know that it's exactly that thought that might cause their mutual downfall later on.
But for now? It feels like a plan that can't fail, if they just take turns to go out of their way for each other like this. ]
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[ Of course it's a lot. The killing Ange has been doing has always been a little easier in that sense, never having to put down someone she really cared for.. but she can understand, in concept, how hard it must be.
Especially on someone like Ruby, whose heart just overflows with care for others.
Ange slowly lets go of Ruby's hand, but it's just so she can instead move her own hand up, letting it rest on Ruby's cheek and gently caressing the skin underneath the other's mechanical eye. ]
It's hard. And.. I know you knew that. That it's why you did it. So no one else would have to. [ Not that Ange was present for it. She didn't witness it, but.. with the way she knows Ruby, she can understand what the other must be thinking most of the time.
It's entirely like Ruby to take the hardest things on her own shoulders, just so it doesn't have to be someoen else carrying that weight. ]
.. that's why I made this. Because I'm the one who's supposed to take care of you in a moment like this. [ Just like how Ruby took care of her last month. Saving her from that awful place, caring for her when she couldn't get out of bed. Ange still carries the scars on her skin as a reminder. ] I think this place is starting to take its toll on some people. But.. I just..
[ Ange's voice trails off, a little flustered and shy, but then she shakes her head and continues. ]
I thought that as long as the two of us take good care of each other, we can at least prevent that from happening to either of us.
[ Little does she know that it's exactly that thought that might cause their mutual downfall later on.
But for now? It feels like a plan that can't fail, if they just take turns to go out of their way for each other like this. ]