[But that — he had begun to understand once she’d told him, and now that he’s seen it from beginning to end, been part of it, he feels like he understands in a way he can’t quite put into words.
Then he remembers the night they’d swallowed the medicine they’d been given, a few days a hundred years ago at once, and it had left their legs too unsteady to carry them back to their beds. He had told her to rest against a wall, then positioned himself a little away from her, but close enough that no one would trouble her. To his knowledge, as he’d tried to stay awake as long as he could, no one had.
Maybe that was why she’d wanted him to come along: not just someone to keep her rage in hand, but someone she could trust to look out for her, after.]
Must have been hard, before that. To have it happen whether or not you wanted it, and the chance that someone like the people who had Judas might try to take you as a captive.
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[But that — he had begun to understand once she’d told him, and now that he’s seen it from beginning to end, been part of it, he feels like he understands in a way he can’t quite put into words.
Then he remembers the night they’d swallowed the medicine they’d been given, a few days a hundred years ago at once, and it had left their legs too unsteady to carry them back to their beds. He had told her to rest against a wall, then positioned himself a little away from her, but close enough that no one would trouble her. To his knowledge, as he’d tried to stay awake as long as he could, no one had.
Maybe that was why she’d wanted him to come along: not just someone to keep her rage in hand, but someone she could trust to look out for her, after.]
Must have been hard, before that. To have it happen whether or not you wanted it, and the chance that someone like the people who had Judas might try to take you as a captive.