[ It wasn't real. It was never real. All the memories of birthdays spent with a loving family are false. And yet, pitifully, she clings to them, like she clung to them even as she started to realize they weren't her life.
That wasn't the life she wanted. This isn't the life she wanted. But back home...can she really call that better? It has to be, it has to or she killed them for nothing, for nothing at all, but—
Like in the fabrications, she lets the horrible thoughts that threaten to choke her sink back to the depths of her mind, as one simple word chases them away. ]
I wa- was- I was so...so scared, you—
[ Whose feelings are these? The neglected child who strove for just a crumb of attention from her family and never received it? Or the daddy's girl whose grasp on reality shattered when her normal life was turned on its head? The murderer who tried to fix her team, or the murderer who avenged her father's death? Riley doesn't know. She can't separate the two. Maybe they're both her.
Right now, she can't examine it. She just lets out a grateful whimper. If she lost this again... She doesn't know what she would do. ]
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That wasn't the life she wanted. This isn't the life she wanted. But back home...can she really call that better? It has to be, it has to or she killed them for nothing, for nothing at all, but—
Like in the fabrications, she lets the horrible thoughts that threaten to choke her sink back to the depths of her mind, as one simple word chases them away. ]
I wa- was- I was so...so scared, you—
[ Whose feelings are these? The neglected child who strove for just a crumb of attention from her family and never received it? Or the daddy's girl whose grasp on reality shattered when her normal life was turned on its head? The murderer who tried to fix her team, or the murderer who avenged her father's death? Riley doesn't know. She can't separate the two. Maybe they're both her.
Right now, she can't examine it. She just lets out a grateful whimper. If she lost this again... She doesn't know what she would do. ]