[And now it is seeping in through the cracks just at the edge of his voice, a brief glimpse before he tries to shove it down again, finds it too powerful. She's talking about things he absolutely cannot have done, or things he has absolutely no memory of doing. Is it a trick? A test?
Why doesn't it feel like a test? Why is he not alarmed by her in and of herself, but only her behavior, her words? Why does he want to believe her?
His throat feels tight and close and at last he breaks attention, fidgeting with a slow shift of his weight, bright brown eyes wide but narrowing on her.
Without a clear course of action, without a certainty in sight, he opens his mouth and tries to convince her of the only thing he knows for certain.]
I do not know how to help anyone stay alive. I know only basic survival skills, and have taught them to no one outside of my unit.
I did not survive. [How can he help anyone else survive when he can't even survive, himself? How can he have knowledge when he knew nothing that could save him?]
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[And now it is seeping in through the cracks just at the edge of his voice, a brief glimpse before he tries to shove it down again, finds it too powerful. She's talking about things he absolutely cannot have done, or things he has absolutely no memory of doing. Is it a trick? A test?
Why doesn't it feel like a test? Why is he not alarmed by her in and of herself, but only her behavior, her words? Why does he want to believe her?
His throat feels tight and close and at last he breaks attention, fidgeting with a slow shift of his weight, bright brown eyes wide but narrowing on her.
Without a clear course of action, without a certainty in sight, he opens his mouth and tries to convince her of the only thing he knows for certain.]
I do not know how to help anyone stay alive. I know only basic survival skills, and have taught them to no one outside of my unit.
I did not survive. [How can he help anyone else survive when he can't even survive, himself? How can he have knowledge when he knew nothing that could save him?]