this is connected to my main fic, don't forget. it isn't required to read that to read this, but you'll probably be pretty confused if you don't read the main fic. ~~~~~~ Losing Arial and Berlin had hurt more than words would ever be able to describe. When Pristina and Oswald had found their youngest and only surviving son shaking as he sat hunched over their piles of dust, it felt like the world had ended, like nothing would ever be right again and there was no way they could ever be anything other than devastated. Gaster was absolutely destroyed by his grief and terror, though, and it added more weight to her and Oswald's pain, watching him break over and over again. Pristina didn't know how much more of it her soul could take.