Yeah. The Aerie thing was close to what actually happened. But it was from when I was fourteen, to when I was nineteen. And he was all I had, for a long time.
[Ellie glances down at her nails, at the scars on her hands. When she says the words, it's like she's forcing them out. Detaching herself from them, even if that's impossible.]
A group hunted him down, and tortured him to death.
[I was there, she'd told Lance. When it happened. She doesn't bother pointing that out a second time, and doesn't bother saying what they did to her.]
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Yeah. The Aerie thing was close to what actually happened. But it was from when I was fourteen, to when I was nineteen. And he was all I had, for a long time.
[Ellie glances down at her nails, at the scars on her hands. When she says the words, it's like she's forcing them out. Detaching herself from them, even if that's impossible.]
A group hunted him down, and tortured him to death.
[I was there, she'd told Lance. When it happened. She doesn't bother pointing that out a second time, and doesn't bother saying what they did to her.]