open | prompt six | DEMONS

[wrens]

prompt six | D E M O N S be careful in casting out your devil ‘lest you cast out the best thing about you. ( friedrich nietzsche )

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[inheritancy]

[ That's the worst part of their story: they're both good people. They're just stuck in a bad place. Lifted from the jaws of circumstance, they could have been happy (there's no question about it, their hearts are kind). To a degree, they are, but they bear scars now, and they both know that scars fade but never disappear with time. Time does not bring back the dead bodies that color the trails of their respective paths. ]

It should have, [ he says, speaking too quickly to be able to stumble over his words, ducking his head so that his chin tips further and further down toward his chest. The implication: I didn't have them. I didn't have a choice. I did with you. ]

How much— how m-much did you hear?

[ From the doctors, from the counselors, from the parole board, from anyone. ]