Val… Kai knew she had been through loss, with her own sister. Val was his cousin by blood, but in his reality, she may as well have been a sister to him. This time, he wouldn’t be there to make sure she knew she could handle it. Candice may not have actually died, but at her best friend’s funeral, he was the only thing that had held Valerie together. He wasn’t the person in the world she was closest to, but they were family, and if Kai was gone, who would be the person to make sure that she didn’t break from the added pain. Kai could feel his mind growing less clear, his body was colder, and it was getting harder to keep his eyes open. He looked first to his cousin, pausing to breathe between words. “You… can handle… anything.”
