[So he was another blurred face to her, an erased memory she would never recover until the day she returned.]
I cared about her more than anyone else here. [His tone is cutting, discouraging any argument to the contrary. He knows she had let others into her life - faces he didn't care to know, only to distrust - but he also knows that she could not have been more important to them than she was to him, simply because they all had others. The less you have, the more fiercely you value what you can hold in your hands.]
I was the only one who accepted everything about her. [He let her hate and distrust, never judging or looking down on her - the same safe haven she gave him.]
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I cared about her more than anyone else here. [His tone is cutting, discouraging any argument to the contrary. He knows she had let others into her life - faces he didn't care to know, only to distrust - but he also knows that she could not have been more important to them than she was to him, simply because they all had others. The less you have, the more fiercely you value what you can hold in your hands.]
I was the only one who accepted everything about her. [He let her hate and distrust, never judging or looking down on her - the same safe haven she gave him.]