[ Everyone has called him childish in the past for his motives so it stings to hear it from Xiao Xingchen. The dissonance from the way he imagined the corpse would speak to him, after eight years of being alone with nothing but his own daydreams to overlay on that body, is jarring.
He steps back, stone and wood crunching underfoot as he cries. ]
You're the one who lied! Acting like it didn't matter who I was but it did, I knew it would, and then I was disgusting. I didn't care then and I don't care now! [ He hates how his eyes keep welling up and all he can taste is blood. All of his emotions are a breath snagged in his trapped lung. ] You're not Xiao Xingchen!
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[ Everyone has called him childish in the past for his motives so it stings to hear it from Xiao Xingchen. The dissonance from the way he imagined the corpse would speak to him, after eight years of being alone with nothing but his own daydreams to overlay on that body, is jarring.
He steps back, stone and wood crunching underfoot as he cries. ]
You're the one who lied! Acting like it didn't matter who I was but it did, I knew it would, and then I was disgusting. I didn't care then and I don't care now! [ He hates how his eyes keep welling up and all he can taste is blood. All of his emotions are a breath snagged in his trapped lung. ] You're not Xiao Xingchen!