[Paul has heard of the sacrifice of Julia Sodder, of the end of her Dream. He's known the vague outline of who was involved, and how. It's another thing to hear it confessed by a participant. He thinks of his conversation with Chara, all those months ago, and their shared, bitter sympathy for a little girl who died a monster.
He didn't know that Oscar and his predecessor both sought to destroy themselves with her.]
So what do we do?
[The words have a rougher quality in their scrawling, letters less perfectly shaped.]
How do we unbreak it?
[The world itself, Oscar's place in it. The churning sea and the furious sky. The bonds that Paul wove himself over months and severed in a single breath. They could pick any of them, and he still wouldn't have an answer.]
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He didn't know that Oscar and his predecessor both sought to destroy themselves with her.]
So what do we do?
[The words have a rougher quality in their scrawling, letters less perfectly shaped.]
How do we unbreak it?
[The world itself, Oscar's place in it. The churning sea and the furious sky. The bonds that Paul wove himself over months and severed in a single breath. They could pick any of them, and he still wouldn't have an answer.]