[She offers him a soft smile.] It seems to me like this place is rather easy to find oneself lost.
[Ever since of her arrival by train, Tessa's own sense of time has faltered. Somehow, time seems to move both slower and faster in this city. In this graveyard, in particular, time seems to have stopped altogether.
When he mentions that he feels as though his family are the ones beneath the headstones, Tessa nods.] I know what you mean. It's...well. I feel like I'm looking at the graves of my family too.
[Her husband, her children, her children's children, and so on. People younger than her, born later than her, that will die before her. Such is the gift of being immortal.
He says he thinks he hit his head, and apologizes, and she grows worried.] You don't have to apologize.
[She considers a moment, looking around once more at the gravestones.] Would you like to get out of here? Perhaps we both might feel...less troubled away from here.
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[Ever since of her arrival by train, Tessa's own sense of time has faltered. Somehow, time seems to move both slower and faster in this city. In this graveyard, in particular, time seems to have stopped altogether.
When he mentions that he feels as though his family are the ones beneath the headstones, Tessa nods.] I know what you mean. It's...well. I feel like I'm looking at the graves of my family too.
[Her husband, her children, her children's children, and so on. People younger than her, born later than her, that will die before her. Such is the gift of being immortal.
He says he thinks he hit his head, and apologizes, and she grows worried.] You don't have to apologize.
[She considers a moment, looking around once more at the gravestones.] Would you like to get out of here? Perhaps we both might feel...less troubled away from here.