[ he should know by now she's not like other women. the tone only makes her eyebrows knit together—an insistent prying that refuses to let that page close. ]
Suffering.
[ she's seen and felt the things erika was subjected to, is reminded of it at times when she closes her eyes. the spectres of that brittle world haunt charlotte sometimes when she draws away the veil of her own sheltered world. it's merely a secondhand empathy that, for she doesn't have the scars to show for those experiences. only the memories stolen by accident from a woman wrought with pain in the ocean. ]
oh we will.
Suffering.
[ she's seen and felt the things erika was subjected to, is reminded of it at times when she closes her eyes. the spectres of that brittle world haunt charlotte sometimes when she draws away the veil of her own sheltered world. it's merely a secondhand empathy that, for she doesn't have the scars to show for those experiences. only the memories stolen by accident from a woman wrought with pain in the ocean. ]