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Sabel couldn't help the weak and brief belt of laughter that let him. Somehow this had turned from Light's more recent and, in his opinion, more painful problems to sympathizing with the ghosts of his past. How that had happened, how she had ended up being the one to be comforting him, he didn't know.
His smile, half-hearted with the grief he felt for the woman, turned back down to Lights at the squeeze of his elbows. "I should be the one comforting you. Not the other way around." He hesitated, not sure what he could do to comfort her. "How about I take you out for some ice cream?" Ice cream was comfort food, right?
...Hopefully it didn't sound incredibly childish or degrading.
Lights was actually feeling better now she'd talked to someone other than Ethan or Eleri about Naomi. Eleri had her own issues to deal with and Ethan ... Ethan was protective at the best of times. So talking about it with people other than her family was productive.
... Then Sabel offered ice-cream. Her smile widened and her eyes lit up. "That sounds great!" Ice-cream! Lights loved ice-cream, even more than bouncy balls. And she certainly wasn't afraid of Sabel thinking her childish because of it. She checked her watch. "Wow, that's the longest I've ever spent in a lift."