[Edward appreciates that squeeze, and her affirmation that she won't take off and leave him. He reaches out with his other hand, feeling the air, trying to catch both her hands.]
[He has a feeling he's going to need it, and then yes, he absolutely does when she drops that second bit of information on him.]
Twenty years?
[Oh god... Edward likes to think he's been coping pretty well today, with all the sudden changes and the new, frightening location, but this news crashes onto his shoulders like a lead shroud. Twenty years? After everything, humanity could only get along for twenty years before starting it all over again?]
[He doesn't realise it, but he starts sinking towards the ground.]
So it was all for nothing. [He makes a bitter scoffing noise.] Everything we did, everyone who died... for nothing.
I'm laughing, this is the first time anyone has brought up WWII to him
[He has a feeling he's going to need it, and then yes, he absolutely does when she drops that second bit of information on him.]
Twenty years?
[Oh god... Edward likes to think he's been coping pretty well today, with all the sudden changes and the new, frightening location, but this news crashes onto his shoulders like a lead shroud. Twenty years? After everything, humanity could only get along for twenty years before starting it all over again?]
[He doesn't realise it, but he starts sinking towards the ground.]
So it was all for nothing. [He makes a bitter scoffing noise.] Everything we did, everyone who died... for nothing.