She should have felt relieved; perhaps happy at the thought of his asking questions. This was progress, right? He was starting to try to look at something beyond the fantasies, beyond the images that he had conjured up in his mind. Maybe he was trying to see Yuudai Suzuki, the man, rather than...whoever he had thought he had become.
Maybe he was trying to make sense of his muddled memory, and really try to see her through the delusion he'd conjured up for himself.
And perhaps she did, a little.
But with that tone, that cadence, it was hard for her not to remember where she was and who she was talking to:
She was in an insane asylum, speaking with a man who had attacked a man who saw him as his own son without provocation. He...
No. That might not even have been him; that could have just been his...his illness getting to him. You came to speak to him and you're going to do it.
And he got the letter. He remembered the letter.
"...Allegheny General Hospital." she murmured. "Allegheny County, Pennsylvania."
More. She needed to tell him more.
"You were unconscious there for about a year. I-It was a miracle you'd woken up, really. Someone must have really been watching over you that day."
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She should have felt relieved; perhaps happy at the thought of his asking questions. This was progress, right? He was starting to try to look at something beyond the fantasies, beyond the images that he had conjured up in his mind. Maybe he was trying to see Yuudai Suzuki, the man, rather than...whoever he had thought he had become.
Maybe he was trying to make sense of his muddled memory, and really try to see her through the delusion he'd conjured up for himself.
And perhaps she did, a little.
But with that tone, that cadence, it was hard for her not to remember where she was and who she was talking to:
She was in an insane asylum, speaking with a man who had attacked a man who saw him as his own son without provocation. He...
No. That might not even have been him; that could have just been his...his illness getting to him. You came to speak to him and you're going to do it.
And he got the letter. He remembered the letter.
"...Allegheny General Hospital." she murmured. "Allegheny County, Pennsylvania."
More. She needed to tell him more.
"You were unconscious there for about a year. I-It was a miracle you'd woken up, really. Someone must have really been watching over you that day."