"I... yeah. About my death and..." He hesitates. This part... it's not pretty. It requires some background information.
"One of the memories that came back before everything else did... there was a war, and the country we had moved to got involved. The family that I had run away from... they, like everyone else from that country who had moved there, were rounded up and put in... custody. Because they could be spies, or... some reason. It doesn't matter. It's complicated to explain all the reasons on all sides, and it doesn't matter."
It's stupid. It's stupid and ugly and it's one of the reasons he hates politics, even in the Underground. "But I had already run away from them. I hid. And... when I went looking for them after the war, they... had died in that camp. ... I never even got to say goodbye. So yeah. I have nightmares, of the family I was with just... dying alone, in pain. Without me to help comfort them. To help find them food or health care or... I would have outlived them anyway, but I wouldn't have abandoned them."
Taro reaches up and wipes his face, trying to keep his emotions in check. "... I know it's good to get stuff out there. But I... it's hard sometimes. And... and I want you to know you can be honest with me, too."
cw: world war ii
"One of the memories that came back before everything else did... there was a war, and the country we had moved to got involved. The family that I had run away from... they, like everyone else from that country who had moved there, were rounded up and put in... custody. Because they could be spies, or... some reason. It doesn't matter. It's complicated to explain all the reasons on all sides, and it doesn't matter."
It's stupid. It's stupid and ugly and it's one of the reasons he hates politics, even in the Underground. "But I had already run away from them. I hid. And... when I went looking for them after the war, they... had died in that camp. ... I never even got to say goodbye. So yeah. I have nightmares, of the family I was with just... dying alone, in pain. Without me to help comfort them. To help find them food or health care or... I would have outlived them anyway, but I wouldn't have abandoned them."
Taro reaches up and wipes his face, trying to keep his emotions in check. "... I know it's good to get stuff out there. But I... it's hard sometimes. And... and I want you to know you can be honest with me, too."