[Only Grady does this to him. Makes him lose his cool like this. Makes it so he can't even fucking think. Half of his power is in his stoicism. A man of his stature already cuts an intimidating frame, but Wrench has learned how to wield his silence like a secondary weapon. Most people can't read him, and hearing folks aren't used to that kind of misunderstanding. But with Grady, everything is different. The man makes him pound tables and rush after him like a lost puppy. He makes Wrench feel things about himself he hates, because a part of him is scared they're more true than anything else.
He'll never forget being handcuffed to that hospital bed, or the earnest expression of the officer who first explained his partner's death. He'll never forget his tears, or the animalistic rage he felt when Malvo admitted he'd done it. Wrench hasn't known pain like that since. How could any of it be untrue?]
No, [he mouths, feeling for a moment small and unsure. Of course he doesn't believe it was a choice. But it happened. Whatever this place is, whatever it's trying to do to him, he can't let it give him hope for something that isn't real.]
I came here from the woods. I was on an ambushed prison bus, and someone was hunting the woman I was shackled to. I was shot with a crossbow. [Wrench holds up his bandaged arm demonstratively.]
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He'll never forget being handcuffed to that hospital bed, or the earnest expression of the officer who first explained his partner's death. He'll never forget his tears, or the animalistic rage he felt when Malvo admitted he'd done it. Wrench hasn't known pain like that since. How could any of it be untrue?]
No, [he mouths, feeling for a moment small and unsure. Of course he doesn't believe it was a choice. But it happened. Whatever this place is, whatever it's trying to do to him, he can't let it give him hope for something that isn't real.]
I came here from the woods. I was on an ambushed prison bus, and someone was hunting the woman I was shackled to. I was shot with a crossbow. [Wrench holds up his bandaged arm demonstratively.]