[He doesn't have a smile to give back.] ...It feels like nobody will listen to you...like nobody cares what happens to you.
[It's how he feels every day. Gutted of everything and his heart is left to dry outside his body. He talks to Martel. He talks to Kaori and he talks to Sayo. But none of them can hear them, and none of them ever talk back, because they are long gone. Every day he feels smaller, and the empty rooms of the house grow more vast.]
one more time, with feeling!
[It's how he feels every day. Gutted of everything and his heart is left to dry outside his body. He talks to Martel. He talks to Kaori and he talks to Sayo. But none of them can hear them, and none of them ever talk back, because they are long gone. Every day he feels smaller, and the empty rooms of the house grow more vast.]