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The ghost began to approach her and Sid's breath hitched in her throat. Within her chest, the girl's heart began to thud hard as though trying to break free. And then he was here, standing before her, asking where she'd been as though he hadn't died. As though nothing had changed. As though her world hadn't been burned to ashes and her mind set to the four winds. Where have you been...

Siduri stared at Gilgamesh, wide-eyed, in disbelief. That familiar figure, the familiar smile that she got to see more than most. Tears of a gargantuan size welled within the girl's multi-hued eyes, though she never even blinked, lest the phantom fade away. The moment that those tears overflowed and ran down pastel cheeks, Siduri launched herself at her father. If this wasn't him, if this was just her imagination, she would lose whatever sanity she had left. The girl closed her eyes and hoped. She wished.

Siduri's body slammed hard into flesh, rattling her teeth, rattling her bones, rattling her poor little heart within its cage. She crumpled to the earth below her and sobbed. The pale child curled in on herself, a sobbing, crying mess, sides heaving, gasping for breath. All the while, she kept one of her father's paws wrapped up in her embrace. One of his very real, very not-dead paws.

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