AoS - Leo doesn't know how to handle the latest episode

[controlsthedwarves]

How am I supposed to tell them apart? I know... know she isn't real but that doesn't stop it. Now she's here, acting like- like nothing's changed...

[Leo, you'll be able to tell, I know it.]

It's going to drive her away again...

[She didn't get driven off before, she left for a mission, remember?]

Right. Right. 'The mission'. Except now, everything's weird between us. I shouldn't have told her. I just didn't think we'd make it. I thought-

[No one's judging you for that choice, I promise.]

I am.

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[bytwo]

You're finding a path.

[See? She can be comforting. Sometimes. That was totally comforting.]

[controlsthedwarves]

...finding a path?

[Maybe comforting if he understood it?]

I.. don't follow.

[bytwo]

Out of the woods.

[He's not alone in the inability to follow River's logic club.]

[controlsthedwarves]

...out of the woods.

What if there's no end to the woods? I... I've seen the scans. I know the damage's done. It feels like I've changed, but... she can't accept that.

[bytwo]

[She flinches a little at I've seen the scans, but manages to recover fast.] People change. They surprise you. You're not the only one.

[controlsthedwarves]

...I did change. And she did surprise me. [There is a darkness in his words, one born of frustration and sadness.]

She just can't accept that I have.

[bytwo]

She will.