[As Basil gets worked up, the only thing Komaeda can do is watch. Though he doesn't have the capacity to show the full range of pity he feels for the other, it's at the very least found in the subtle way his brows inch up on his forehead, and how his gaze goes half-lidded.
Is it better, or worse, if Basil knows? He'll find out eventually, he imagines, and he doesn't have to share every detail... Katurian won't know, either, what's happened to his body.]
...I'm sorry, Basil-kun.
[Komaeda pauses, enough to set aside his snack and fold his hand into his lap as he turns his full attention to the other.]
Katurian-san... Probably died. It's not like he'll be gone forever, but... that's usually the case, when people go missing.
[He had already told Basil that death was fully possible here, and that people don't stay dead—but it's likely a harsh reality to face it so closely, so soon. Such is the way of Ryslig, unfortunately.]
It's either that, or he returned to the Sea of Stars... For that, though, we'd have to go to the graveyard to see if his name appeared on a headstone.
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Is it better, or worse, if Basil knows? He'll find out eventually, he imagines, and he doesn't have to share every detail... Katurian won't know, either, what's happened to his body.]
...I'm sorry, Basil-kun.
[Komaeda pauses, enough to set aside his snack and fold his hand into his lap as he turns his full attention to the other.]
Katurian-san... Probably died. It's not like he'll be gone forever, but... that's usually the case, when people go missing.
[He had already told Basil that death was fully possible here, and that people don't stay dead—but it's likely a harsh reality to face it so closely, so soon. Such is the way of Ryslig, unfortunately.]
It's either that, or he returned to the Sea of Stars... For that, though, we'd have to go to the graveyard to see if his name appeared on a headstone.