This is really one of the few occasions where Lavi wishes he wasn't right. They're all dead, yes, and some of them have died horrifically, but it hurts in a different way, to hear Tuuri admit this, when she didn't have to in the first place. That the trial could affect so much more than just the killer and the victim, that it's waves could touch traumas unrelated.
He gently lifts a hand, hesitates, then reaches over to press it on the top of Tuuri's head.]
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Date: 2023-02-23 06:41 am (UTC)This is really one of the few occasions where Lavi wishes he wasn't right. They're all dead, yes, and some of them have died horrifically, but it hurts in a different way, to hear Tuuri admit this, when she didn't have to in the first place. That the trial could affect so much more than just the killer and the victim, that it's waves could touch traumas unrelated.
He gently lifts a hand, hesitates, then reaches over to press it on the top of Tuuri's head.]
...I'm sorry.