[ He doesn't have to say much more on that topic. He's fairly certain Ruka is able to glean from all of the information at hand that he's dead; Jaime likely wouldn't have named the entire memorial after him if not for that unfortunate detail. He's happy to have gotten a chance to meet him, grateful beyond reason, but his loss still stings like an ache far older than it is. Maybe he'll meet him again. If he does, he doubts it will be with his memories intact, and that awful period of hoping he'll take being replaced well will repeat anew. ]
We took care of BB together - we didn't think either of us had enough time to take care of him part-time, but obviously that, um, didn't pan out. Mako used to belong to a couple of guys I knew. Kaidan and Shepard.
[ Has Ruka met them? Maybe, in this world or the last. There's no way of telling. ]
And I got a snake too, upstairs in her tank. Malina. She's from Chato, my old roomie.
[ This is why his house seems so comfortable, so lived-in; he's been here long enough to have been through it all. Everything he owns is embued with some emotion. They've been through as much as Jaime has, staying exactly where he is, immoveable as anything, as though his presence alone can string the branches of the past together.
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[ He doesn't have to say much more on that topic. He's fairly certain Ruka is able to glean from all of the information at hand that he's dead; Jaime likely wouldn't have named the entire memorial after him if not for that unfortunate detail. He's happy to have gotten a chance to meet him, grateful beyond reason, but his loss still stings like an ache far older than it is. Maybe he'll meet him again. If he does, he doubts it will be with his memories intact, and that awful period of hoping he'll take being replaced well will repeat anew. ]
We took care of BB together - we didn't think either of us had enough time to take care of him part-time, but obviously that, um, didn't pan out. Mako used to belong to a couple of guys I knew. Kaidan and Shepard.
[ Has Ruka met them? Maybe, in this world or the last. There's no way of telling. ]
And I got a snake too, upstairs in her tank. Malina. She's from Chato, my old roomie.
[ This is why his house seems so comfortable, so lived-in; he's been here long enough to have been through it all. Everything he owns is embued with some emotion. They've been through as much as Jaime has, staying exactly where he is, immoveable as anything, as though his presence alone can string the branches of the past together.