[She does need a moment. She needs rather more than a moment. And she doesn't take it. He'd just said something, but it was something ridiculous that made no sense.] Wha - what did you say? Kain, he - what?
[She doesn't understand why her mouth refuses to form more sensible thoughts. It's like she's facing a wall - a sheer glass wall - she keeps walking into it, but nothing new seems to happen, she can't make it make sense and yet it's still there.] He can't - Kain's dead? But he was - but he was fine, and - we just talked the other day -
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[She does need a moment. She needs rather more than a moment. And she doesn't take it. He'd just said something, but it was something ridiculous that made no sense.] Wha - what did you say? Kain, he - what?
[She doesn't understand why her mouth refuses to form more sensible thoughts. It's like she's facing a wall - a sheer glass wall - she keeps walking into it, but nothing new seems to happen, she can't make it make sense and yet it's still there.] He can't - Kain's dead? But he was - but he was fine, and - we just talked the other day -