[She is angry, and she's determined to stay angry, because anger is and always has been a comforting, normalizing thing for her, like a blanket she can wrap around her shoulders and feel as close to safe as possible for someone like her, a frightened child in a woman's body, a girl who never really grew up past the trauma of losing her father and falling prey to her mother's abuse. Nick is set on holding on to that anger no matter what Chris has to say, scowling into the camera right up until he says people are already dead because of me, scowl softening finally when she hears agreeing to just kill a friend.
She falls silent for a long moment after he stops talking, piecing the words together in her mind, attempting to make them fit and failing. Is he saying that he still, after all she's put him through, considers her a friend? Why would he do that?
It makes no sense. She doesn't trust it. But she asks a different question instead.]
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She falls silent for a long moment after he stops talking, piecing the words together in her mind, attempting to make them fit and failing. Is he saying that he still, after all she's put him through, considers her a friend? Why would he do that?
It makes no sense. She doesn't trust it. But she asks a different question instead.]
What d'you mean, people are dead 'cause of you?