I thought you could keep it afterwards, if you wanted to.
[Something to remind him of this night. Humans like mementos from what he understands. Physical things that connect them to memories of people, places, and events as though if they couldn't touch something, maybe it all would fade away like it never happened at all.
His thumb idly traces Paul's where their fingers interlock.]
I haven't found the words yet.
[Or maybe he knows the words but he doesn't know how to put them together into anything meaningful.]
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[Something to remind him of this night. Humans like mementos from what he understands. Physical things that connect them to memories of people, places, and events as though if they couldn't touch something, maybe it all would fade away like it never happened at all.
His thumb idly traces Paul's where their fingers interlock.]
I haven't found the words yet.
[Or maybe he knows the words but he doesn't know how to put them together into anything meaningful.]