Maybe she's something people don't understand because that's the order it comes in, and even the horrific is thought in the same blood and bone base normality of known, that it doesn't carry what other people would think it should. Horror and death have been her bread and butter since birth—and shouldn't that make this easier? (But she knows why it doesn't, why her heart won't let it, why she hasn't corralled it off and swallowed it down into numbness either)—and she can see her people in that kind of cut-and-dry choice.
Sacrificing for others, even knowing there would never be any hope for you, alone in the dark.
"That was very brave of all of you," Jo says, and it's picking glass out of her lungs to keep talking, but she says it because it's worth acknowledging. What they did and what they thought would be the only end after choosing it.
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Maybe she's something people don't understand because that's the order it comes in, and even the horrific is thought in the same blood and bone base normality of known, that it doesn't carry what other people would think it should. Horror and death have been her bread and butter since birth—and shouldn't that make this easier? (But she knows why it doesn't, why her heart won't let it, why she hasn't corralled it off and swallowed it down into numbness either)—and she can see her people in that kind of cut-and-dry choice.
Sacrificing for others, even knowing there would never be any hope for you, alone in the dark.
"That was very brave of all of you," Jo says, and it's picking glass out of her lungs to keep talking, but she says it because it's worth acknowledging. What they did and what they thought would be the only end after choosing it.