"I see..." she mouthed quietly, although I could still hear the words clearly enough.
From the look on her face, it seemed like she had finally reached the same realization that had been slowly forming in my own mind. For quite some time, neither of us had been able to properly grasp what was actually connecting us, even though the answer had apparently been sitting right in front of us the entire time.
It wasn't simply about who we were now.
It was about who we had been before.
More specifically, it was about the relationship we had shared in our previous lives, before everything had changed and we had both somehow ended up becoming completely different people in completely different circumstances.
