she does pause here - partially because the welts are. weird, and unusual. but also because it - it feels cruel. she's been alone for so, so long. she knows how bad it hurts. she hurts, right now, her hand and her heart and everything in her, she wants to take it out on someone, she wants him to hurt the way she has, so badly, since ace died. since she watched him drown himself, steady and slow. since they found the pieces of reigen's heart all over the floor.
she thinks about a conversation they had before. she thinks about how he told her that he caught ghosts and he took them home. how everybody looked at him like he was a monster, how his own family couldn't have ever known because they'd hate him too, and she --
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she does pause here - partially because the welts are. weird, and unusual. but also because it - it feels cruel. she's been alone for so, so long. she knows how bad it hurts. she hurts, right now, her hand and her heart and everything in her, she wants to take it out on someone, she wants him to hurt the way she has, so badly, since ace died. since she watched him drown himself, steady and slow. since they found the pieces of reigen's heart all over the floor.
she thinks about a conversation they had before. she thinks about how he told her that he caught ghosts and he took them home. how everybody looked at him like he was a monster, how his own family couldn't have ever known because they'd hate him too, and she --
she falters.]
Why did you.
[she asks, voice wet.]