[ He steps back and while she's wondering if she should reach for him and apologize for freaking him out by basically vomiting up the worst possible experience she's ever had she can't--
--she can't stop shaking. ]
It's okay. [ But is it? Is it really, Kaya? When you can still hear the rain in your ears and the cold of this town brings back memories of waiting and waiting and waiting just praying for someone to come and save you. ] It's gone.
[ But not dead. Not dead, Kaya. The people who'd swept the school hadn't managed to kill it. And with the whole of Nilar practically under water there were too many places for it to have slunk away to. ]
It's gone and I'm here and alive and I'm never-- [ she bites the word out, like she needs to believe it ] --going to be it's prey ever again.
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--she can't stop shaking. ]
It's okay. [ But is it? Is it really, Kaya? When you can still hear the rain in your ears and the cold of this town brings back memories of waiting and waiting and waiting just praying for someone to come and save you. ] It's gone.
[ But not dead. Not dead, Kaya. The people who'd swept the school hadn't managed to kill it. And with the whole of Nilar practically under water there were too many places for it to have slunk away to. ]
It's gone and I'm here and alive and I'm never-- [ she bites the word out, like she needs to believe it ] --going to be it's prey ever again.