The explanation he gave her left Lily with a disgusted look on her face, looking down at the bruise on her wrist again.
"They? They should be careful." She knew a little about what that thing could do, and she couldn't fathom wanting to know more than that. Whoever 'they' were, Lily hoped they proceeded cautiously.
Breathing out slowly she nodded to herself and lifted her head to meet Five's eye once again. Recollecting this, at last, hadn't made her feel as better as she had hoped, but it hadn't made her feel worse. Some of the finer details were still unclear, how she hadn't managed to drown while the thing at the bottom of the lake kept her there among them, but this was still an improvement. A very morbid improvement.
"Would those people in the forest do something to make me forget?" She assumed they'd pushed her in the lake to do her in, wiping the memory of someone who wasn't supposed to survive seemed like a waste of time. "Have you dealt much with them?"
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"They? They should be careful." She knew a little about what that thing could do, and she couldn't fathom wanting to know more than that. Whoever 'they' were, Lily hoped they proceeded cautiously.
Breathing out slowly she nodded to herself and lifted her head to meet Five's eye once again. Recollecting this, at last, hadn't made her feel as better as she had hoped, but it hadn't made her feel worse. Some of the finer details were still unclear, how she hadn't managed to drown while the thing at the bottom of the lake kept her there among them, but this was still an improvement. A very morbid improvement.
"Would those people in the forest do something to make me forget?" She assumed they'd pushed her in the lake to do her in, wiping the memory of someone who wasn't supposed to survive seemed like a waste of time. "Have you dealt much with them?"