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[ He notices her, of course. He hears her long before she is standing beside him, but she does not speak, and though he wants to tell her she should go to the one person who will be more affected than himself by what happened...
He doesn't. Not yet. Partly because he doesn't know what words will be coming out of his mouth, of course, but also...
It's that easy. You wake up, and somebody is gone. Somebody who has no future. And he knows, he knows he doesn't deserve the comfort of another presence, anyone's presence, yet he can't push her away. Not for the first few moments, at least. ]