[Febuary 20th - Evening]

[It's quite a while before Kaori is able to do anything different from the violent shaking, still making the occasional strangled noise as she struggled to find something to say or even do. She wasn't sure of what she was supposed to be doing, or if she should have clung to him in the first place. There was nothing she could do to change the fact that she did.]

I'm sorry... [For being an idiot, for burdening him, for not just leaving while she had the chance. That she was crying and was weak and needed him now. She was sorry for simply existing here.]