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@@@@@It would make sense if it had been longerIt
@@@@@It would make sense if it had been longerIt ought to take
time to get oneself stuck in such a disastrous mire as the one I was in now
Melanie tried to consider it impartiallyNot Jared… and Jamie, there's no way I
could hurt Jamie, even if he was… She trailed off, hating that line of thought
I considered this and found it trueEven if the child had become something or someone else,
neither she nor I could ever raise a hand to himYou're like… a motherMothers are irrational hereToo many emotions
involved
Motherhood is always emotional–even for you souls
I didn't answer that
What do you think is going to happen now?
You're the expert on humans,I reminded hert's probably not a good thing that they're giving
me foodI can think of only one reason they'd want me strong
The few specifics I remembered of historical human brutalities tangled in my head with the
stories in the old newspaper we'd read the other dayFire–that was a bad oneMelanie had
burned all the fingerprints off her right hand once in a stupid accident, grabbing a pan she hadn't
realized was hotI remembered how the pain had shocked her–it was so unexpectedly sharp and
demanding
It was just an accident, thoughQuickly treated with ice, salves, medicineNo one had done it
on purpose, continued on from the first sickening pain, drawing it out longer and longer…
I'd never lived on a planet where such atrocities could happen, even before the souls cameThis
place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds–the most beautiful senses, the most
exquisite emotions… the most malevolent desires, the darkest deedsPerhaps it was meant to be
soPerhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reachedWere the souls the exception to
that rule? Could they have the light without the darkness of this world?
I… felt something when he hit you,Melanie interrupte |