[It feels like there's a tension in Estelle's chest at the dread building there that Leonhardt be okay. When he starts breathing again, she realizes that she's holding her breath, and lets it out in a sigh of relief that turns out to be too soon. While she doesn't understand how the machines work exactly, it's easy to figure out that the steady sound resuming is his heartbeat, and when it begins to falter again, her hands clench at the side of the bed.
It all happens so quickly that it just seems fake somehow. She is startled by the movement of the doctor rolling him over and trying to start his heart again, and her eyes fly to the machine that monitors him, then to Joshua, and just nothing at all seems appropriate to say. After all, she just walked in on this. She didn't even know something was wrong. How could this just happen so suddenly? But even with all that the doctor's doing it doesn't seem to be doing anything at all.
When he apologizes, Estelle's eyes begin to sting and she brings her hands to her mouth. No... no way.]
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[Even if they weren't particularly close, it's very difficult to accept that she's hearing him right. This was Joshua's brother... And in a sense, even if he only briefly acted like it because of that experiment, that made him family too.]
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It all happens so quickly that it just seems fake somehow. She is startled by the movement of the doctor rolling him over and trying to start his heart again, and her eyes fly to the machine that monitors him, then to Joshua, and just nothing at all seems appropriate to say. After all, she just walked in on this. She didn't even know something was wrong. How could this just happen so suddenly? But even with all that the doctor's doing it doesn't seem to be doing anything at all.
When he apologizes, Estelle's eyes begin to sting and she brings her hands to her mouth. No... no way.]
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[Even if they weren't particularly close, it's very difficult to accept that she's hearing him right. This was Joshua's brother... And in a sense, even if he only briefly acted like it because of that experiment, that made him family too.]