_{[ something in your chest falls into a painful, empathic stillness, to see her like that. ]}

I see.
...Nutrition intake and minimizing loss of muscle mass are the two most important things for buying time in these situations. _{It's why he grows us standing. If you can't even properly bask, the body's doomed.} --That's. Well. It's something. And we NEED whatever something we can get.

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It'll be... very. Very difficult. Taking on the Chaos Floor, without her.