Out here where it is relatively quiet it's nice to feel lucid for a moment. Lucid in her thoughts if not in her body, which still feels like the feet of a million ants crawling on a log. But she isn't screaming in the soundproofed silence of Kakapo or feeling the voice of the phone book being read turned into the voice of eight billion raging souls. Still without regrets but knowing what regret there should be, she gets to speak for herself.
That's probably by the world's design, too.]
You'll all play nice with that girl's killer until the alliance no longer suits you. You're only not killers because it suits you.
[Something stops the name on her tongue because she recognizes she doesn't know which one to use, not anymore, sifted through all the sand of Nona's memory.]
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[She gives Psyche more credit than that, too.
Out here where it is relatively quiet it's nice to feel lucid for a moment. Lucid in her thoughts if not in her body, which still feels like the feet of a million ants crawling on a log. But she isn't screaming in the soundproofed silence of Kakapo or feeling the voice of the phone book being read turned into the voice of eight billion raging souls. Still without regrets but knowing what regret there should be, she gets to speak for herself.
That's probably by the world's design, too.]
You'll all play nice with that girl's killer until the alliance no longer suits you. You're only not killers because it suits you.
[Something stops the name on her tongue because she recognizes she doesn't know which one to use, not anymore, sifted through all the sand of Nona's memory.]