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I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.
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My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
Change, like healing, takes time.
One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
