[Koltira's uncertainty is much more frightening than his own, and it keeps him quiet and still, save for an involuntary shudder.
the not-that-irrational worry that Koltira and all the other important people in his life will go the way of Bariyan, turning around into people with the same faces but none of the memories or connections to him, makes his chest and stomach a minefield of knots and little hurts, and jumble his thoughts and reasoning.
except that...if he looks up and peers past dangling hair and the line of his jaw, Martin can see a few links of the little chain on Koltira's neck. he can't reason that away. and so long as that's there, he's not completely forgotten.]
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the not-that-irrational worry that Koltira and all the other important people in his life will go the way of Bariyan, turning around into people with the same faces but none of the memories or connections to him, makes his chest and stomach a minefield of knots and little hurts, and jumble his thoughts and reasoning.
except that...if he looks up and peers past dangling hair and the line of his jaw, Martin can see a few links of the little chain on Koltira's neck. he can't reason that away. and so long as that's there, he's not completely forgotten.]
It will be all right... [a weak echo.]