He doesn't understand. Grandma and Tuuri and their parents are all dead. Onni knows that. Onni is the only one who really understands what that means. That he would ask about them is so incomprehensible that Lalli has no idea how to react.
He can't bring himself to say it, to speak the whole truth.]
They're... they're not... here.
[There's a panic rising in his own chest, too, a fuzz that fills his ears and crowds out all thoughts except that he wants to leave this conversation immediately. He takes a step back.]
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He doesn't understand. Grandma and Tuuri and their parents are all dead. Onni knows that. Onni is the only one who really understands what that means. That he would ask about them is so incomprehensible that Lalli has no idea how to react.
He can't bring himself to say it, to speak the whole truth.]
They're... they're not... here.
[There's a panic rising in his own chest, too, a fuzz that fills his ears and crowds out all thoughts except that he wants to leave this conversation immediately. He takes a step back.]
Why--why are you asking me that?