[Casey feels that fear through the bond and sends back gentle waves of love and reassurance, one after another. What Hunter went through was awful, and what he learned about Belos has left him with a very valid fear that he, too, could be replaced by another just like him. But not to them. To them, there was no one like him. Irreplaceable, he sends back, and hugs a little more tightly.]
We know you're trying. It's okay. You just need to talk to us when you're scared like this.
[Makes him wish he'd pushed harder, or stolen the letter sooner. If Hunter has been suffering and struggling with this all along, could it have been averted sooner? But he was so stubborn about it... now Casey knows that stubbornness really was born of fear.]
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We know you're trying. It's okay. You just need to talk to us when you're scared like this.
[Makes him wish he'd pushed harder, or stolen the letter sooner. If Hunter has been suffering and struggling with this all along, could it have been averted sooner? But he was so stubborn about it... now Casey knows that stubbornness really was born of fear.]