[She listens to him while he speaks, nodding a little. She doesn't know if that holds true entirely, but there are enough pieces of truth to it that she can believe it. How long did all of them continue grasping at something that wasn't there anymore? How long did they keep struggling to bring things back to make life the way it was supposed to be.]
[Elena used to think she was afraid of having everything spelled out for her, to have her whole life written for her before she began. But now she realizes her fear comes from not having a future she can control. Sometimes she still struggles to control more than she's reasonably able to. Other days she lets it go and instead takes it one step at a time.]
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[Elena used to think she was afraid of having everything spelled out for her, to have her whole life written for her before she began. But now she realizes her fear comes from not having a future she can control. Sometimes she still struggles to control more than she's reasonably able to. Other days she lets it go and instead takes it one step at a time.]
Because the rest of it is dead. Everyone's gone.