Chapter97

He gave a small nod, picking up a stick to poke at the fire, "yeah, small world."
'She has a really good memory to remember a random guy on the street after everything she just went through,' he thought, looking at her red eyes and tear-stained face.
"How am I here?" she asked, pulling the blanket tighter around her shoulders. "The monster... did you fight it?"
"Fight it?" he repeated, giving a short dry laugh. "No. I grabbed you and ran as fast as I could while it was distracted. I am not suicidal enough to fight something like that."
She looked down at her hands, the reminder of the monster bringing the heavy sadness back in full force.
"I see," she said quietly. "Then the others... they are really..."
He didn't need her to finish the sentence to know what she meant.
'She's grieving,' he thought, watching her shoulders slump forward while she stared at the ground. 'Losing the people supposed to protect you is always rough.'
He didn't offer any comforting lies, because he knew from experience that hearing things like how it would all be okay from a stranger meant absolutely nothing when you were hurting. It was better to just let people process it.
At the edge of his vision, the stream comments were rolling steadily.
[ CringeSlayer91:] man, princess looking devastated
[ ShadowMage44:] ngl that knight went fully beyond his limits, sad he died
[ NewViewer_02:] Hajin you gotta say something to make her feel better 
[ashley (Mod) :] let her process it, losing someone in front of you takes time to digest
'Ashley is right,' he thought, reading the golden-tagged comment, 'no point in talking right now.'
He reached over, picked up a piece of cooked meat from a stone near the fire, and held it out toward her.