Isn't that how life is? People come, go, die, all of those sorts of things. But she could understand that much, given how much death there had been in her own life in things she absolutely could have done nothing about. But to try and hold it together and be some sort of pillar of stability. Topics for never, indeed.

Ah, of course he noticed. She glances towards him for a brief moment before pretending as if nothing's wrong, as she's wont to do. "Perhaps envious. Perhaps a little bitter. So you would be correct."