[ A pause, strained, dragging. He shifts at once, distantly adrift — a silent creature, lost in his moment. The past is a difficult, bitter thing. Strangers do not improve its contemplation. It rattles him, rattles his creatures. ]
We went... wasn't there. When we went. Hours after he was called. They'd started their work. ( Teeth now, a pale flash, sharp. ) Wasn't there. With them. Wasn't...
( In the ranks, the order. ) Only his fool of a mother.
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[ A pause, strained, dragging. He shifts at once, distantly adrift — a silent creature, lost in his moment. The past is a difficult, bitter thing. Strangers do not improve its contemplation. It rattles him, rattles his creatures. ]
We went... wasn't there. When we went. Hours after he was called. They'd started their work. ( Teeth now, a pale flash, sharp. ) Wasn't there. With them. Wasn't...
( In the ranks, the order. ) Only his fool of a mother.