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 stares at him for a long moment more - her eyes are still white, she can't help that. and then:]
... I need to leave. [impulse week is getting the better of her, here. she reaches up to wipe at her face, breath shaking.] You took - you took them. From me.
You were told to. I heard that, but I need to not be here right now.
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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.]
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I was told to.
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By who, Tiger?
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blinks ]
Tiger?
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You're breaking out. Why is that happening.
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[ looks down at himself because he was so lost in his own misery sauce that he didn't even notice ]
I...I have no idea.
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... I need to leave. [impulse week is getting the better of her, here. she reaches up to wipe at her face, breath shaking.] You took - you took them. From me.
You were told to. I heard that, but I need to not be here right now.
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Whatever you need.
[ he almost says sorry but that's such a weak, paltry word in the face of what he's done to nimona. ]
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and then she turns and leaves, out of a building she hates more than anything.]