"Yes," he answers, decisively. "If you put down a burden you've been carrying so long you don't remember what it feels like, and you get to lean on the people around you."
Be heavy. Feel light.
"You can come back any time," Jedao promises him, leaning in for another tight hug.
"Yes," he agrees on a breath, and feels like it shudders right to his core. Of course."
He squeezes xiao Jedao back without hesitation this time. "My apologies for wasting your good tea," he murmurs as he lets go and stands. "But I'll try very hard not to waste your good advice." And then he's stepping backwards into a hole in reality, before he has a chance to talk himself out of it.
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Be heavy. Feel light.
"You can come back any time," Jedao promises him, leaning in for another tight hug.
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He squeezes xiao Jedao back without hesitation this time. "My apologies for wasting your good tea," he murmurs as he lets go and stands. "But I'll try very hard not to waste your good advice." And then he's stepping backwards into a hole in reality, before he has a chance to talk himself out of it.