Emerald thought for a moment on how to respond, she could have easily faked it and told him she was fine, that she just needed a little rest and all would be good! But she just didn't have it in her to lie to him, not when it was something that was so blatantly untrue it would be insulting his intellect.
"T-To be honest I've been better...not because of my injuries really..." She looked away for a moment, worried that he'd see her getting misty eyed.
"I...I've seen things...learned things that I wish I didn't know about...stuff that s-shouldn't be real I-" Emerald stopped abruptly as her voice quivered, she couldn't do this anymore.
"I'm sorry I...let's talk about something else...anything will do I just...I just can't talk about this..." Emerald shut out the memories as best she could, they were just too fresh in her mind.
"H-How was your mission? Better than mine right?" She actually laughed at that, it was kind of funny in a really sad, morbid way.
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