[He'd been manning up to say something, bracing himself when. That. She.
What?
What about Rin?
He went completely still, breath freezing in his lungs for a moment, because of the crushing sense of...
No. Nononononono.
His eyes whipped to her, desperately wishing that he was drawing the wrong conclusions but no one from the future had heard of her and she hadn't found it all strange to be somewhere not home and she could have been so much more surprised to see him and and and no.]
....
Did-
[He choked on the words, because he didn't want them to process because that was an answer, a horrible terrible answer]
[Action forever even if they wish to rescind!]
What?
What about Rin?
He went completely still, breath freezing in his lungs for a moment, because of the crushing sense of...
No. Nononononono.
His eyes whipped to her, desperately wishing that he was drawing the wrong conclusions but no one from the future had heard of her and she hadn't found it all strange to be somewhere not home and she could have been so much more surprised to see him and and and no.]
....
Did-
[He choked on the words, because he didn't want them to process because that was an answer, a horrible terrible answer]
you mean Rin died?