They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
And that was, they thought we weren't people, because we don't talk.
People've been being rude about Tirinquo.
I could tell they were thinking it and then when I tried to explain why that wasn't okay, they got worse.
...I can ask people not to be rude or say things, but I can't ask them not to think things...
It is not considered okay where we're from to make demands about what people think. Just how they act.
I don't want to stress everybody out but this really isn't something I can put up with. Not and feel safe here.
If it's really too much trouble I can just - I don't know -
There's an undercurrent of barely-contained panic to her words.
That helps. Not enough that she stops clinging, but some.
(Tirinquo looks alarmed, but doesn't interfere.)
I was sighing because people can't seem to be good to each other no matter how important it is.