[Edamura's initial reaction is to stiffen underneath the hug, body going rigid as eyes widen, mouth parting in open shock. for as understanding and kind as Rom has been to him so far. . . he didn't expect the same in response to a story about patricide. whatever his reasons. . . however bitter he had felt in that moment. . . however cathartic (traumatic) it had been to pull the trigger of that gun and watch the man called Oz vanish into the water. . . it was still murder. something to be condemned, not. . . comforted]
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[that]
[. . . completely throws him into disarray]
[Edamura's initial reaction is to stiffen underneath the hug, body going rigid as eyes widen, mouth parting in open shock. for as understanding and kind as Rom has been to him so far. . . he didn't expect the same in response to a story about patricide. whatever his reasons. . . however bitter he had felt in that moment. . . however cathartic (traumatic) it had been to pull the trigger of that gun and watch the man called Oz vanish into the water. . . it was still murder. something to be condemned, not. . . comforted]
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