I learned about my family members before the loops too, you know. Even if... it wasn't as much as I'd thought it was.

[ (You had come to known them as people, those countless days together. Their likes and dislikes. What each of them were capable of. How they were as strangers, and then as friends -- as family members. But you hadn't thought further than that. What might trouble them. Their dreams. Where they'd like to go, or who they'd like to become.

Stuff like that

didn't really matter to you, who had nowhere and no one to be. Who seemed to have no troubles. They hadn't reached out either, though. Still haven't.

You think of sculpting with Elysium, of sitting at the beach with Gebura, of Callisto's laugh. Is it harder? Not having that safety net? Has it filled the void, or is it only adding to it?

...) ]

I don't know. There really hasn't been any trouble [ aside from almost stabbing Gebura once ] or anything like that, so I haven't... really thought about it. I don't know if I've learned a lot about them, either.

[ Just like how they haven't learned a lot about Siffrin, and yet have learned enough just by being around him. ]