As my fast lengthened, those needs vanished
I... As my fast lengthened, those needs vanished
I couldn't keep from sleeping, but I did not make myself comfortableThe first day, I woke to
find my head and shoulders cradled on his lapI recoiled from him, shuddering so violently that
he did not repeat the gestureAfter that, I slumped against the stones where I was, and when I
woke, I would curl back up into my silent ball at once
“Please,” Ian whispered on the third day–at least I thought it was the third day; there was no
way to be sure of the passing time in this dark, silent placeIt was the first time he'd spoken
I knew a tray of food was in front of meHe pushed it closer, till it touched my
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He put his hand on my arm but moved away quickly when I flinched out from under it
“Please don't hate meIf I'd known… I would have stopped themI won't let it
happen again
He would never stop themHe was just one among manyAnd, as Jared had said, he'd had no
objections beforeEven in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope
of mercy was reserved for their own
I knew Doc could never intentionally inflict pain on another personI doubted he would even
be capable of watching such a thing, tender as his feelings wereBut a worm, a centipede? Why
would he care about the agony of a strange alien creature? Why would it bother him to murder
d&g a
baby–slowly, slicing it apart piece by piece–if it had no human mouth to scream with?
“I should have told you,” Ian whispered
Would it have mattered if I'd simply been told rather than having seen the tortured remains for
myself? Would the pain be less strong?
“Please eat
The silence returnedWe sat in it for a while, maybe another hour
Ian got up and walked quietly away
I could make no sense of my emotionsIn that moment, I hated the body I was bound toHow
did it make sense that his going depressed me? Why should it pain me to have the solitude I
craved? I wanted the monster back, and that was plainly wrong
I wasn't alone for longI didn't
discount chanel quilted handbag know if Ian had gone to get him or if he'd been waiting for Ian
to leave, but I recognized Jeb's contemplative whistle as it approached in the darkness
The whistling stopped a few feet from me, and there was a loud clickA beam of yellow light
burned my eyes
Jeb set the flashlight down, bulb upIt threw a circle of light on the low ceiling and made a
wider, more diffuse sphere of light around us
Jeb settled himself against the wall beside me
“Gonna starve yourself, then? Is that the plan?”
I glared at the stone floor
If I was being honest with myself, I knew that my mourning was overI hadn't
known the child or the other soul in the cave of
cartier roadster horrorsI could not grieve for strangers forever
“You wanna die, there are easier and faster ways
As if I wasn't aware ofthat
“So give me to Doc, then,” I croaked
Jeb wasn't surprised to hear me speakHe nodded to himself, as if this was exactly what he'd
known would come out of my mouth
“Did you expect us to just give up, Wanderer?” Jeb's voice was stern and more serious than I
had ever heard it before“We have a stronger survival instinct than thatOf course we want to
find a way to get our minds backIt could be any one of us somedaySo many people we love
are already lostIt nearly kills Doc each time he fails–you've seen thatBut this is our
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