[And just like that, with four simple words, the ground shakes, the earth splits, and the cracks between them widen into chasms.
Something catches in her throat. It's hard to breathe, for a minute, because there's a lump there now that wasn't a moment ago and she can't seem to get it down. Four simple words and her eyes feel hot and this time she gives in to the urge to curl inward, drawing her knees up, bringing her shoulders down. She's pressing her lips together because she can feel them quivering, and even with the pressure she's applying, she can't completely suppress the movement at the corners of her mouth.
It's so wrong, the words, the tone, that she almost wants to shove herself up and escape — and she doesn't because she knows all too well that if she does, he'll let her go, and blame himself for that, too.
So instead she simply yanks off one of her gloves and presses her hand to her face, trying to anchor herself to the memory of Suhara's voice and failing rather badly as the situation sends her emotions reeling.]
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Something catches in her throat. It's hard to breathe, for a minute, because there's a lump there now that wasn't a moment ago and she can't seem to get it down. Four simple words and her eyes feel hot and this time she gives in to the urge to curl inward, drawing her knees up, bringing her shoulders down. She's pressing her lips together because she can feel them quivering, and even with the pressure she's applying, she can't completely suppress the movement at the corners of her mouth.
It's so wrong, the words, the tone, that she almost wants to shove herself up and escape — and she doesn't because she knows all too well that if she does, he'll let her go, and blame himself for that, too.
So instead she simply yanks off one of her gloves and presses her hand to her face, trying to anchor herself to the memory of Suhara's voice and failing rather badly as the situation sends her emotions reeling.]
Don't say that.