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her Da's words brought back a warm, invincible feeling of comfort that she remembered from days tucked up against him as a young pup, when she still thought of him as such a flat person. He was simply Da, protector and giver of warmth...but after this talk, he was more and he was less. she did not know yet how to process the enormous amount of information she now held, and in the coming days she would sort through them, and her wavering image of Da would solidify. 

but she knew still that she loved him, no matter all that he had said. it hadn't all sunken in, and for now, she didn't want it too...didn't want to think about every single thing it entailed. but she felt closer, somehow, to him, as if the information that they shared bound them together. "It's okay, Da."  she said when he said that he wished he could go back. the past was that, a bunch of hazy memories. "You're here, and that's good."  she murmured, leaning into him, mess of emotions but glad for the pillar that was Da.