[America knows how hard it is to say goodbye; he'd come to care deeply for some here who left after some time, after all. But he's been saying goodbye since he was very young, since he first began to learn that almost every person in his world will grow old and die during the amount of time in which he'd be lucky to age a year, and he's become used to it. Still, he remembers how it felt when he was a child, when he had to say goodbye to the friends he made who grew up without him.
He puts his hand on Lucas's shoulder, but doesn't say anything more.]
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He puts his hand on Lucas's shoulder, but doesn't say anything more.]