[It’s the honesty of someone who knows. Aubrey couldn’t give it to Sunny; Eren could. That Armin can to her…
[She feels wretched. She’s heaving bloody murder and he’s calling her “sweetheart.” She sobs harder, silent by now.
[Not a low she was allowed to hit, back in that attic; had to muffle it fast, or they’d get mad. So it came out in fits and bursts, like the sidewalk on that day, one shoe down and the river neverending. And they didn’t know her, and she didn’t know them, but Mari pet her hair and Sunny sat close, and they said, “Let’s stay together now, okay? We’ll be friends.” And Basil could join too, and everything would be okay.
[Sunny listened to her; they all did. And Aubrey just…]
I’m trying. [She has to, now. For them all.] I’m trying…
spontaneously fires semi-headcanon memory beam
[It’s the honesty of someone who knows. Aubrey couldn’t give it to Sunny; Eren could. That Armin can to her…
[She feels wretched. She’s heaving bloody murder and he’s calling her “sweetheart.” She sobs harder, silent by now.
[Not a low she was allowed to hit, back in that attic; had to muffle it fast, or they’d get mad. So it came out in fits and bursts, like the sidewalk on that day, one shoe down and the river neverending. And they didn’t know her, and she didn’t know them, but Mari pet her hair and Sunny sat close, and they said, “Let’s stay together now, okay? We’ll be friends.” And Basil could join too, and everything would be okay.
[Sunny listened to her; they all did. And Aubrey just…]
I’m trying. [She has to, now. For them all.] I’m trying…
[It hurts…]