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The math that Carmy understood
"She's gonna come back..." Carmy murmurs for Sophie as if to settle her wrestling coos in search of mom. But the reflective ponderance shines backward, brightly. He rocks her, to quell the barbs of anxiety that stir within a self-same feeling. A fear on the one hand of holding his neice by himself, and on the other he risks thinking so hard about Sydney being alone that loudness become words. He lets them go:
Slow down, "she's coming back," he says. An encore for Soph, and a entremet for him. If he's the one who's leaving, then why does she feel so far away?
It quiet again, soft enough for the echo of Sugar's words "hold her like you would hold something precious" to remind him.
"I'm thinking about you," from afar, adrift, he ties words into a tether until they form an embrace. Why don't you let me You don't have to "I don't want you to be alone right now." Syd.
4x6 Sophie, "I got you"
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I'm so sorry. You made it. I left you alone. It's never going to happen again. It's happening again.