[Hoo boy, Palamedes thinks, and looks briefly aside to give his own mug a look like maybe it can advise him on how best to handle another traumatized youth (tm). Okay.
(Also, is a terrible sea beast that genuinely ate him now a sympathetic figure? Is that the situation? Maybe if someone had told him to try talking to it first, damn...)]
Right, [he says, still gently, and also,] Someone's undoubtedly told you already, but what happened to you isn't your fault. I don't need to have seen it to know that much. Whatever it is you're feeling now—
[Hmm. How to. Word this concept.]
Let yourself feel it. But you won't have to feel it forever.
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(Also, is a terrible sea beast that genuinely ate him now a sympathetic figure? Is that the situation? Maybe if someone had told him to try talking to it first, damn...)]
Right, [he says, still gently, and also,] Someone's undoubtedly told you already, but what happened to you isn't your fault. I don't need to have seen it to know that much. Whatever it is you're feeling now—
[Hmm. How to. Word this concept.]
Let yourself feel it. But you won't have to feel it forever.