I remembered only pieces. All the horror, the sorrow, the fear had to come out our mouths, or it would have burst out of our skin and shattered our minds. I wouldn't be as quick, because I'd have to think about it. He looked away.
He stopped at the door and turned back, with a grin on his face that I'd never seen before. He'd come with that smile, and I still didn't understand it, but I knew that he used it less and less, and usually only when I was being silly. It crawled inside and played along my skin, made me shiver, and God help me, I turned back and looked. I know he would have done what I'd told him to do.
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