"- are you okay?"

Okay don't answer Annie will just be freaked out over here while writing words for the kids to sound out.

the kids should go get some fresh air in the courtyard why don't they do that 

Okay.

(what happened what's wrong aaaaaaah)

She comes in. "Do you want me to calm you down Annie'd have to go away -"

"I don't care what you do to me."

And she looks at Annie - "what happened, did you confess your undying love for her or something-"

"What -" no she was being very discreet - "I didn't say anything -"

"Fuck you," she says, "I hate you I hate that you keep doing this I wish I still had emotions strong enough to contain how contemptible it is can't you just fucking end it can't you just stop spinning yourself new faces what do you even want you have it I will never be of any use to anyone I care about ever again I am broken you won now just please, please, stop -"

 - "Nelya. Nelya -"

"Stop calling me that. My sisters called me that and they're not here, they're safe, you will never get your hands on them -"

should she leave

she should probably leave

Lírnith has some thing she can do if Annie is not around and probably knows what she's doing so Annie should leave

Annie leaves.

The thing she can do is sing her sister calm, which she has advance permission to do conditional on being real and on Rirosseth looking about to hurt herself and so as soon as Annie is out of range Rirosseth is calm. She still thinks this is the contrived means by which Thauron is going to end this excruciating hallucination with rape but she is not upset about it at all, she is so very calm, and Lírnith is too because these things are self-affecting, and she walks with her to bed and sings her calm until she sleeps and then -

- fuck -

- Annie, are you okay -

What happened?

Uh. So. The ten or eleven hallucinations of being rescued? The Enemy had a favored way of ending them and seguing back into Angband, and it was - situations being contrived such that she needed to get over the touch thing, do I need to expand on that -

I won't I wouldn't ever I can't -

Yeah but she doesn't even believe you exist she recognized the setup and decided we're all definitely hallucinations and she doesn't need to pretend to take this at face value anymore. 

I need to not be hurting her how do I not be hurting her.

She's not hurting right now you can explain what happened -

Artifact effect, I didn't say anything I really didn't - I was too scared at first and then it seemed like it would be a distraction and then it seemed like it wouldn't be good for her to know -

It wouldn't be good for her to know but she's good at people, she wouldn't fail to notice for very long, she probably just pieced it together on her own, not your fault....

Should I go somewhere else, is there even anywhere else -

What does this effect do, what does it feel like -

Like the very most important thing in the world is that she not be hurting and especially that I not be hurting her, I can't think around that, I need to not hurt her.