she does flinch, when he's murdering danny. because it's not the same as what happened between her and neverah, but it's similar enough - the overkill, really. the unrelenting assault, piece by piece, when really just a few decisive blows would have ended it. but that would have been too quick for brimstone, and it was too quick for neverah in the throes of the affliction.
but although waner flinches, she doesn't look away, either.
("waner, run!" her mother had advised, at the first sign of the danger her father posed being directed at her. she had internalized that. running is what she's always done in the face of danger, whether physically or not - she'd run from neverah. she'd tried to distance herself from other dangerous situations with words. but never once had it worked.
her mother's advice won't help here. so although this memory of brimstone's frightens her, she doesn't run.)
instead, she chokes out -]
...he tried to throw you away.
[how lonely that must have been.
(and how like the people she knows, discarding others as soon as they serve no further use to them.)]
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she does flinch, when he's murdering danny. because it's not the same as what happened between her and neverah, but it's similar enough - the overkill, really. the unrelenting assault, piece by piece, when really just a few decisive blows would have ended it. but that would have been too quick for brimstone, and it was too quick for neverah in the throes of the affliction.
but although waner flinches, she doesn't look away, either.
("waner, run!" her mother had advised, at the first sign of the danger her father posed being directed at her. she had internalized that. running is what she's always done in the face of danger, whether physically or not - she'd run from neverah. she'd tried to distance herself from other dangerous situations with words. but never once had it worked.
her mother's advice won't help here. so although this memory of brimstone's frightens her, she doesn't run.)
instead, she chokes out -]
...he tried to throw you away.
[how lonely that must have been.
(and how like the people she knows, discarding others as soon as they serve no further use to them.)]