[ Failures are the standard too many people manage to meet, with consequences all over the board. Are hers better for having come before the fall? Or worse, to have been unearthed and made to realize the extent of her unsuitability for the tasks assigned to her by the ideas and ideals her own father stopped believing in?
In the end, it doesn't matter. She'd been free for such a short time, away from the lies, and it'd been wonderful. Scary, exhilarating, and short lived. Encasing herself in crystal had been a last means of preserving what she was for the sake of the man who had sent her there.
Promise me you'll come home.
Just as long as she wasn't caught, sheltered, and euthanized.
Used for older or injured animals that won't have a better life no matter what. ]
Do they euthanize people, too?
[ She doesn't ask with any ill intent. She's curious. Are people afforded the same courtesy? Are they allowed a way out? Not everyone fights, clawing and fighting for their every second of life. Surely some kindness like this is visited on those who ask or merit its release.
Or else it's kind words for a modern way of throwing kittens in sacks and tossing them into the river, weighted down in rocks. ]
Seven dogs? [ Another pause, with that blink of surprise. Seven means expensive. It's all her mind can see, at first.He likes his solitude. She can understand, if she's not exactly the same way. She's glad when solitude can mean not holding up a front, but the isolation from others wears down at Annie's heart. She craves connection. She knows she's not allowed to have them, but it doesn't stop a traitorous part of her from feeling that desire, that need. The itch she shouldn't scratch.
Caring is difficult. Caring for anyone, in any way, compromises solidarity toward a cause. Is it worth it? ]
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In the end, it doesn't matter. She'd been free for such a short time, away from the lies, and it'd been wonderful. Scary, exhilarating, and short lived. Encasing herself in crystal had been a last means of preserving what she was for the sake of the man who had sent her there.
Promise me you'll come home.
Just as long as she wasn't caught, sheltered, and euthanized.
Used for older or injured animals that won't have a better life no matter what. ]
Do they euthanize people, too?
[ She doesn't ask with any ill intent. She's curious. Are people afforded the same courtesy? Are they allowed a way out? Not everyone fights, clawing and fighting for their every second of life. Surely some kindness like this is visited on those who ask or merit its release.
Or else it's kind words for a modern way of throwing kittens in sacks and tossing them into the river, weighted down in rocks. ]
Seven dogs? [ Another pause, with that blink of surprise. Seven means expensive. It's all her mind can see, at first.He likes his solitude. She can understand, if she's not exactly the same way. She's glad when solitude can mean not holding up a front, but the isolation from others wears down at Annie's heart. She craves connection. She knows she's not allowed to have them, but it doesn't stop a traitorous part of her from feeling that desire, that need. The itch she shouldn't scratch.
Caring is difficult. Caring for anyone, in any way, compromises solidarity toward a cause. Is it worth it? ]