[ Riley meanwhile can't keep her eyes anywhere in particular. They dart around, not focusing on anything. ]
We... S-s- someone...did something. An-n-nd it...w-we all for- forgot...who we were. We w- were all...human, and...th- there were other m-m- monsters, and- and we'd lived hhh- here. [ The emphasis is there, but mostly the word comes out hard because Riley's having trouble stringing the sentence together. ]
S-s- some of us...h-had f- f-f-families. Like, of...p-p- people here. [ She stops. She stops, very abruptly. This is— ] I didn't— m- my— ...mine b-b- back home, they're not. Um. They're...
[ She can't talk about this. She'll get in trouble. She'll make them hate her more. She'll— ]
I didn't. H-have that. Before. A- um. A g- good one.
[ It's so quiet in here. Riley wonders if Mukuro can hear her pulse too, or if it's just because it's beating in Riley's neck, her ear, all around her. ]
cw: parental abuse
We... S-s- someone...did something. An-n-nd it...w-we all for- forgot...who we were. We w- were all...human, and...th- there were other m-m- monsters, and- and we'd lived hhh- here. [ The emphasis is there, but mostly the word comes out hard because Riley's having trouble stringing the sentence together. ]
S-s- some of us...h-had f- f-f-families. Like, of...p-p- people here. [ She stops. She stops, very abruptly. This is— ] I didn't— m- my— ...mine b-b- back home, they're not. Um. They're...
[ She can't talk about this. She'll get in trouble. She'll make them hate her more. She'll— ]
I didn't. H-have that. Before. A- um. A g- good one.
[ It's so quiet in here. Riley wonders if Mukuro can hear her pulse too, or if it's just because it's beating in Riley's neck, her ear, all around her. ]