[He can't give her what she wants, there's no bad guy to point out that she can go fuck up in revenge for whatever's happened between when she saw him last and now. There's Lucretia, who he holds responsible for so much of what's been done, but he won't throw her under the bus while Lup is confused and angry, he's not quite that cruel.
Instead, he takes a shaky breath, the knowledge that he can't keep this from her is a crushing weight, but one he can't ignore.]
We're out of the cycles, Lulu, I'm from your future.
[A decade isn't that much time, to an elf, but it feels like far too long when they've never spent more than a year apart.]
What just happened, for you? What planet are you on?
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Instead, he takes a shaky breath, the knowledge that he can't keep this from her is a crushing weight, but one he can't ignore.]
We're out of the cycles, Lulu, I'm from your future.
[A decade isn't that much time, to an elf, but it feels like far too long when they've never spent more than a year apart.]
What just happened, for you? What planet are you on?
[He needs to know how far behind she is.]