"Her parents killed themselves. For their failure. Instead of working to repair the Tomb or suppress the corpse again."
"She--"
A long, long beat of silence hangs in the air as he tries to figure out how to say this.
"It haunts her, Wei Ying. She sees the corpse - a woman, she said it was, a beautiful woman - she sees it where it cannot be. Hears things that are not real. And she loves it. She would not hear me speak of suppressing it, or of strengthening her to resist."
He makes no apology for having offered to do so. Not in this.
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"Her parents killed themselves. For their failure. Instead of working to repair the Tomb or suppress the corpse again."
"She--"
A long, long beat of silence hangs in the air as he tries to figure out how to say this.
"It haunts her, Wei Ying. She sees the corpse - a woman, she said it was, a beautiful woman - she sees it where it cannot be. Hears things that are not real. And she loves it. She would not hear me speak of suppressing it, or of strengthening her to resist."
He makes no apology for having offered to do so. Not in this.