[ she doesn't mean for her relief to crackle through the other end of the feed. it does, all the same — an exhaled sigh that still wants to stick in her throat, anyway, trapped in an anxious tangle. for a long pause, she nearly lets him end the conversation there, but — ]
If you don't come back — [ to me. she wonders if he can hear those two words implied within her demand, and the fear she doesn't speak of. to know she might live as welford had. to know it's a possibility that she might one day be condemned to an eternity alone, with only her own bone-deep grief for company. ] — I'll find your ghost and throttle you.
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If you don't come back — [ to me. she wonders if he can hear those two words implied within her demand, and the fear she doesn't speak of. to know she might live as welford had. to know it's a possibility that she might one day be condemned to an eternity alone, with only her own bone-deep grief for company. ] — I'll find your ghost and throttle you.