[She grabs the chair she was sat on.] Can you raise your leg? You're supposed to rest it while it's elevated, I think. Rest, Ice... and bandages to compress the sprain?
[Who knows, who cares. Her fingers dig into the back of the chair a little too tightly to be just steadying it.]
So don't... sit here thinking about what you could've done. [What you could've done just spirals into what you should have done, you wish you'd done. Over and over. What if she'd run for Chloe, instead of Slaine? What if she'd taken Kei by the hands and talked to her instead of drowning herself in fear and not realising how deeply Kei had fallen until she just... left.
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[She grabs the chair she was sat on.] Can you raise your leg? You're supposed to rest it while it's elevated, I think. Rest, Ice... and bandages to compress the sprain?
[Who knows, who cares. Her fingers dig into the back of the chair a little too tightly to be just steadying it.]
So don't... sit here thinking about what you could've done. [What you could've done just spirals into what you should have done, you wish you'd done. Over and over. What if she'd run for Chloe, instead of Slaine? What if she'd taken Kei by the hands and talked to her instead of drowning herself in fear and not realising how deeply Kei had fallen until she just... left.
What if... is dangerous.]
What can you do now, Akira-san?
[It's not a hopeless statement. It's a question.]