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Neil Perry ([personal profile] diedeliberately) wrote in [community profile] buttrinthum 2025-05-16 02:00 am (UTC)

[They're mentally connected. There's no real way to hesitate, even if Neil wanted to. He thinks of his own father, of people like Dr. Hager and Mr. Nolan. Maybe some vague idea of what their faces look like comes through, or maybe the sound of their voices, memories of their scoldings. None of it amounts to words, but surely some emotion can be sensed, if nothing else.]

I won't. I've decided not to, but...

People like that...I don't know. Maybe it's easier to think they were kind once.


[Maybe if they lost it, they can find it again, but Neil doesn't really believe that.

[Still. He thought he saw glimmers of it in his father when they agreed.]

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