“We must do as he does in order to gain his trust.” Glint then proceeded to do his best impression of a very round cat repeatedly head-butting the wall. “Purr. Purr.”
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Ben closed his eyes for a moment, focusing on Shana’s arms around him, his arm around her. She was here, she was safe. But she wasn’t right that they hadn’t hurt her. Her voice wouldn’t be filled with so much pain, they wouldn’t be having this conversation if she hadn’t been hurt. She’d been hurt on the inside, and that terrified him. That was something he couldn’t heal.
Distractedly, he focused on the rest of what she’d said.
“Yeah. Yeah, he’s Rob. Probably just scared. I can’t blame him.” He looked her in the eyes and tried to think of some way to fix the still-bleeding wounds he saw inside them. But all he saw was the distant, blurry reflection of the gashes in his mind, tinged with green. “We all are.”
@Sorana