[anna shakes her head with just a little regret showing on her face, in her eyebrows and the corners of her mouth. though she's glad she was able to answer the broader questions, she fears she doesn't have much more to give him when it comes to specifics.]
You have the timeline right as far as I know, but I don't think I know exactly when she broke, no. [a thought occurs to her.] I don't put much faith in coincidences when it comes to this stuff, though. So if she's anything like me, then it probably happened when somebody pulled her out of the cave she was living in and showed her the world outside that she never knew existed. And once she had that realization, she could never go back inside the cave, because who would believe her, right?
So I think the break happened all at once, like getting a hole punched right through her chest. [is the sentence that she wants to say. the words trail off slowly, and she inhales suddenly, closes her eye. lets a shudder run through her like the leviathan had run kainé through. she needs to get control of herself.]
[once the feeling passes (once she's shoved it all back inside her), she lets her shoulders and fingers relax. and tries to continue like it didn't happen.]
And she spent the rest of her time before she found me trying to piece herself back together with everything the new world had for her.
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You have the timeline right as far as I know, but I don't think I know exactly when she broke, no. [a thought occurs to her.] I don't put much faith in coincidences when it comes to this stuff, though. So if she's anything like me, then it probably happened when somebody pulled her out of the cave she was living in and showed her the world outside that she never knew existed. And once she had that realization, she could never go back inside the cave, because who would believe her, right?
So I think the break happened all at once, like getting a hole punched right through her chest. [is the sentence that she wants to say. the words trail off slowly, and she inhales suddenly, closes her eye. lets a shudder run through her like the leviathan had run kainé through. she needs to get control of herself.]
[once the feeling passes (once she's shoved it all back inside her), she lets her shoulders and fingers relax. and tries to continue like it didn't happen.]
And she spent the rest of her time before she found me trying to piece herself back together with everything the new world had for her.