[But that's where the teasing ends, and once she's gotten his system hydrating itself efficiently, she draws back, uncertain of what to say next.]
I... I couldn't tell Ino. You understand.
[She couldn't be the bearer of bad news, couldn't come dropping into this place and shatter the serenity her friends had found here with devastating news. But the guilt still hangs over her for keeping secrets; a part of her wants to babble apologies, wants to perform some sort of atonement for essentially having lied to everyone for these past months.]
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[But that's where the teasing ends, and once she's gotten his system hydrating itself efficiently, she draws back, uncertain of what to say next.]
I... I couldn't tell Ino. You understand.
[She couldn't be the bearer of bad news, couldn't come dropping into this place and shatter the serenity her friends had found here with devastating news. But the guilt still hangs over her for keeping secrets; a part of her wants to babble apologies, wants to perform some sort of atonement for essentially having lied to everyone for these past months.]