awareness is the enemy of sanity
”You find medical relevance in the things that only I can see, which make no sense to the physical world.” Finn doesn’t mean to snap - the shame of it has his cheeks burning even as the words come out - but gods if he hasn’t been driven well beyond the realms of his own comprehension today. He isn’t walking a tightrope, he’s tumbling from it, falling and falling, endlessly.
”I’m sorry,” he says afterwards, voice low. And his eyes close, and he recites it again, the thing she asks, in quiet and certain terms that give as much detail as he can recall. ”One of them has been touched by Vi,” he says. ”A new demigod. She is in the Hollowed Grounds, certainly. I have been told to watch her.” From a distance.
”I’m sorry,” he says afterwards, voice low. And his eyes close, and he recites it again, the thing she asks, in quiet and certain terms that give as much detail as he can recall. ”One of them has been touched by Vi,” he says. ”A new demigod. She is in the Hollowed Grounds, certainly. I have been told to watch her.” From a distance.
for once you hear the screaming
it never stops
FINN
