[He wants to say something more comforting than that. He does, but . . . he's not very good at this. He's out of practice, and anyway, Joseph isn't one of his little siblings crying after a bad dream. He can't just say it's not real, because it is. He can't say he'll fix it, either, that he'll protect Joseph against whatever comes, because that isn't really fair to him, is it? And he wouldn't want that anyway, himself.]
[He just . . . wants Joseph to be able to relax a little. Not all the time, because no one has everything in life just handed to them, not even people like Joseph, but . . .]
[That's the thing. Just because Joseph's lived a charmed life so far doesn't mean that it's fair for everything to dump on him at once now, with no breaks.]
[He just wants Joseph to smile.]
Sometimes when I get angry I get sort of. A little sick to my stomach. I'll find you something for that, just in case. And then tomorrow we can do whatever you want. Even if it's nothing, I can probably manage it.
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[He wants to say something more comforting than that. He does, but . . . he's not very good at this. He's out of practice, and anyway, Joseph isn't one of his little siblings crying after a bad dream. He can't just say it's not real, because it is. He can't say he'll fix it, either, that he'll protect Joseph against whatever comes, because that isn't really fair to him, is it? And he wouldn't want that anyway, himself.]
[He just . . . wants Joseph to be able to relax a little. Not all the time, because no one has everything in life just handed to them, not even people like Joseph, but . . .]
[That's the thing. Just because Joseph's lived a charmed life so far doesn't mean that it's fair for everything to dump on him at once now, with no breaks.]
[He just wants Joseph to smile.]
Sometimes when I get angry I get sort of. A little sick to my stomach. I'll find you something for that, just in case. And then tomorrow we can do whatever you want. Even if it's nothing, I can probably manage it.