[Though it gives him a pang of worry to see those flowers grow brighter, it's not as though he hasn't resigned himself to the inevitable outcome. Still, he's trying to comfort Sparkling, not make it worse.
And so—]
I'm no good at it, either.
I kept... a lot of secrets, more than I'm used to keeping, before I got here. Ended up getting a lot of people in trouble.
[. . .]
Part of me still wished in the end that it could have stayed secret.
So I get it. It's hard. Sometimes it's hard to admit things even to yourself.
Lucky for you... I don't think this is the kind of secret that hurts anyone but yourself.
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[Though it gives him a pang of worry to see those flowers grow brighter, it's not as though he hasn't resigned himself to the inevitable outcome. Still, he's trying to comfort Sparkling, not make it worse.
And so—]
I'm no good at it, either.
I kept... a lot of secrets, more than I'm used to keeping, before I got here. Ended up getting a lot of people in trouble.
[. . .]
Part of me still wished in the end that it could have stayed secret.
So I get it. It's hard. Sometimes it's hard to admit things even to yourself.
Lucky for you... I don't think this is the kind of secret that hurts anyone but yourself.
["lucky".]