[The hug gives him a moment to regain his composure, even if his eyes are a little too bright as he looks at her.
Of course her question makes him pauses. To tell the truth or to lie... It's a hard choice at this moment.]
I've been better. I am better for seeing you. [His smile is softer now, bittersweet in fact.] So glad to see you... alive and well. [It had been hard, knowing Ginia had died. But he had had time to except that fact. To come to an uneasy peace with it. Seeing her alive should have been a rush of sheer joy. But seeing her had also brought the more recent death in his life into sharp relief from where it had been brutally suppressed.]
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[The hug gives him a moment to regain his composure, even if his eyes are a little too bright as he looks at her.
Of course her question makes him pauses. To tell the truth or to lie... It's a hard choice at this moment.]
I've been better. I am better for seeing you. [His smile is softer now, bittersweet in fact.] So glad to see you... alive and well. [It had been hard, knowing Ginia had died. But he had had time to except that fact. To come to an uneasy peace with it. Seeing her alive should have been a rush of sheer joy. But seeing her had also brought the more recent death in his life into sharp relief from where it had been brutally suppressed.]