[Or was, he supposes. More to that point: Rosalind's phrasing is distinctly past tense. It's accurate, yes, but it's another thing to hear it out loud.
It's disorienting, being dead, especially when he sure as hell doesn't feel dead. It doesn't feel like the issue with his mom will always now be unresolved, but that's how it is. Had he even wanted to meet her? Not particularly, no, but... It should've been his choice, and if he died never having made it, he wasn't supposed to hang around in the afterward to regret it.]
Nah. I thought about tracking her down when I was younger, but what would've been the point? She had my entire childhood to get over her shit and reach out, and she didn't, so whatever. Fuck it. She's the one who missed out.
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[Or was, he supposes. More to that point: Rosalind's phrasing is distinctly past tense. It's accurate, yes, but it's another thing to hear it out loud.
It's disorienting, being dead, especially when he sure as hell doesn't feel dead. It doesn't feel like the issue with his mom will always now be unresolved, but that's how it is. Had he even wanted to meet her? Not particularly, no, but... It should've been his choice, and if he died never having made it, he wasn't supposed to hang around in the afterward to regret it.]
Nah. I thought about tracking her down when I was younger, but what would've been the point? She had my entire childhood to get over her shit and reach out, and she didn't, so whatever. Fuck it. She's the one who missed out.
[She probably doesn't even know he's dead.]