Waterfall being so close by too... it makes me a little nervous going there to look for Red.

[he shakes his head]

Some people... they end up so tangled up in your life that words like friend or enemy, rival or lover... they dont really cover it. Losing someone like that is like losing a limb- doesn't matter if it was twisted or infected. It's still *yours*.

[His stone fingers twitch. Old echoing pain of Archer's shot taking "his" head from his shoulders, the same way he always pictured the cognitive Akechi taking his shot on the real thing.]

Having to go through that twice, almost exactly the same way? You need time to grieve. More than any of us.