Is that really you?

“Then I wish they’d told me sooner.” He said, making no effort to correct her assumption. He would not mention their mother, uncertain how she would react. How she treated this line she had drawn in the dirt and called ‘death’ when the true dead could sometimes walk among them.

Io mentioned Deathbelle, and Seer visibly flinched. She might as well have whipped him across the mouth with the reaction he involuntarily gave. Crying out in the mist There was something broken inside of him, that would always be broken for as long as Deathbelle hurt. But, to live, he pretended it did not exist inside of him.

“I broke her heart.” He said plainly, honestly, laying himself bare.

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