"I'm doing my best, Pete," she replies, pressing a brief kiss against his cheek before she pulls away herself, "Just... give me time, please? This has been-- harder than I thought it'd be."
Because he doesn't know. He's never had his heart broken quite like this, and he hadn't been around Rabadash to see how he'd treated his sister to see why she'd been drawn in the way he had-- couldn't compare it to how he had behaved in Calormen and since. So he couldn't possibly understand why the hurt lingered as much as it did.
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Date: 2014-01-26 03:48 am (UTC)Because he doesn't know. He's never had his heart broken quite like this, and he hadn't been around Rabadash to see how he'd treated his sister to see why she'd been drawn in the way he had-- couldn't compare it to how he had behaved in Calormen and since. So he couldn't possibly understand why the hurt lingered as much as it did.