[What's scariest, that Shoyo will see as they keep trailing down this horrible riverbend, that the bodies seem to keep appearing. A tall boy, with glasses and dark hair...stabbed through and with horrible cuts along his throat and over his chest. An older man with...perhaps the worst body mutilation of them all. His skin is papery and pale, almost seeming to peel off the loose flesh, while insects - bees, specifically - buzz and crawl out of his corpse they've made into a pleasant nest. The sound alone makes Ochako shiver and convulse, because she knows. Even without seeing, she just knows. He died. She couldn't help. She couldn't do anything, despite her best efforts. It was too late.
Is this what she's been holding onto for so long? Is this the weight a Hero bears? And one still so small and young... Ochako knew it'd be like this, but the scope was never something she anticipated. The sheer weight that even she can't carry easily.
Ochako sniffles and coughs, unable to really find her voice and not daring to look back at the shore. She knows how bad it is, she knows there's probably more, and will continue to be more, worse things. People far closer to her heart - like her mother and father, Izuku, Katsuki - and she just can't handle that. It will rip open her chest and she'll be crushed. Nodding, Ochako takes a deep and shuddering breath. In, and out, in...and out.]
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Is this what she's been holding onto for so long? Is this the weight a Hero bears? And one still so small and young... Ochako knew it'd be like this, but the scope was never something she anticipated. The sheer weight that even she can't carry easily.
Ochako sniffles and coughs, unable to really find her voice and not daring to look back at the shore. She knows how bad it is, she knows there's probably more, and will continue to be more, worse things. People far closer to her heart - like her mother and father, Izuku, Katsuki - and she just can't handle that. It will rip open her chest and she'll be crushed. Nodding, Ochako takes a deep and shuddering breath. In, and out, in...and out.]
Thank you...