[Physical violence is the easiest kind. Wrench can injure indiscriminately. A basic understanding of human anatomy lends all the knowledge a man could need of how to make someone really hurt. But to eviscerate someone's soul? That takes a more intimate understanding of a person. The kind built over years of interaction, both casual and intentional. Long drives, meals shared together, nights spent in ice fishing huts in the middle of nowhere. You have to plough through the bullshit and the pretense to get to the values, the fears, the history.
Wrench can't think of a person on earth who knows him better than Grady. Others have come and gone and none have gotten nearly as close. Never mind the language barrier; those boundaries have been self-imposed. Losing the other man nearly killed him, so yeah. Maybe he wants to make it hurt. White-hot rage isn't nearly as frightening as terror, and Wrench doesn't think he can get through putting himself back there a second time.]
Five years ago! [His closed fists beat each other so loud it sounds like it must hurt, the number thrown backwards as if discarding all of that time. An open-handed toss of what happened in the interim.] 2006. He told me he slit your throat. I didn't want to believe it, but I waited as long as I could and you never came.
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Wrench can't think of a person on earth who knows him better than Grady. Others have come and gone and none have gotten nearly as close. Never mind the language barrier; those boundaries have been self-imposed. Losing the other man nearly killed him, so yeah. Maybe he wants to make it hurt. White-hot rage isn't nearly as frightening as terror, and Wrench doesn't think he can get through putting himself back there a second time.]
Five years ago! [His closed fists beat each other so loud it sounds like it must hurt, the number thrown backwards as if discarding all of that time. An open-handed toss of what happened in the interim.] 2006. He told me he slit your throat.
I didn't want to believe it, but I waited as long as I could and you never came.