[ It doesn't sound like a joke. Not that Parker always recognizes those for what they are, anyway. But he's right. Between Eliot and the rain and then half the town vanishing, plus the ghosts and Eliot dying and just them being stuck here at all, their luck hasn't exactly been amazing lately.
At least they're all still together. At least none of them had disappeared with the others. She nods in response to the not-joke, hesitates, and then nods again. Definitely awful. Definitely impossible. It doesn't even occur to her to wonder what he'd found. Whatever it is, it can't possibly be as bad as what she'd seen.]
I saw... [ But it's not just that. She shakes her head, trying again. ] I felt...
I was you. In the coffin.
[ She risks a glance up at him, only because she has to see his face. Confirm for herself, yet again, that he's still here and breathing normally. ]
I...remembered it. I know what it was like.
[ And it was terrible. Tears hover at the corners of her eyes, and she smushes her face into his chest again, squeezing him tighter. Probably not the most helpful thing for a guy with a fear of tight, enclosed spaces, currently being forced to revisit his unquestionably absolute worst experience of that fear, but she just needs to hold him. ]
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At least they're all still together. At least none of them had disappeared with the others. She nods in response to the not-joke, hesitates, and then nods again. Definitely awful. Definitely impossible. It doesn't even occur to her to wonder what he'd found. Whatever it is, it can't possibly be as bad as what she'd seen.]
I saw... [ But it's not just that. She shakes her head, trying again. ] I felt...
I was you. In the coffin.
[ She risks a glance up at him, only because she has to see his face. Confirm for herself, yet again, that he's still here and breathing normally. ]
I...remembered it. I know what it was like.
[ And it was terrible. Tears hover at the corners of her eyes, and she smushes her face into his chest again, squeezing him tighter. Probably not the most helpful thing for a guy with a fear of tight, enclosed spaces, currently being forced to revisit his unquestionably absolute worst experience of that fear, but she just needs to hold him. ]