Maybe. [A beat.] I should have known better, though. I'd seen what happened to them before, it came for me last. I had time, I knew what the trick was. And I still — you know when you think you've figured out something completely, and you walk in so confident, and then someone just whacks you upside the head with something different?
I had no idea she had gone through something so awful. And Nodd, too. It was much crueler than just showing us the miserable things as they were. It's like picking an old scar bloody again long after it's gotten healed.
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Mm... I think she's kind of shaken, but managing. She's trying to be mindful of her injuries, at least.
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[So much hands. Her fingers flinch in at times. It stings something fierce.]
It was my fault. I got...I fell for it all. Like a total idiot.
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... I wouldn't call you an idiot. These things are designed to prey on us.
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Would that we could always be rational, but that's not what it means to have a heart.
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[She watches the tidy work he makes of her wounds with a furrow between her brows.]
It was a lot like what's been happening all week, actually. Except...we saw things the way we wished they would be.
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[...]
Yeah, Yuri said something about that—how your life would be like without one aspect, until it ended up tearing your peace away again?
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[She sighs.]
I had no idea she had gone through something so awful. And Nodd, too. It was much crueler than just showing us the miserable things as they were. It's like picking an old scar bloody again long after it's gotten healed.
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... Yeah. Something like that would mess me up too—it'd mess with a lot of people.
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[Because psychadelic storms should show some manners.]
Everything that happens here is incredibly invasive, and I've had quite enough of it. Don't they get tired of rubbing our noses in everything?
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Apparently not. [these storms are very rude!!] Just another piece of misery to deal with on Thursdays.