[ Jess didn't share her story because she was of the opinion that someone always had it worse than her. And apparently that someone was Shadow Moon. Any individual event he described was enough to make a person wonder what the point of living was anymore; so many of them happening to the same person, consecutively or overlapping, made the fact that he was willfully alive (without the crutch of a debilitating addiction) the most credulity-straining aspect of it all.
She laid her hand on his back as he talked and she drank. The precinct he mentioned brought back the memory of one she'd been in that nearly ended up the same way. Officers frozen still, guns pointed at each other's heads, ready to fire if she made a move against the persuasive stranger in the purple suit. Sometimes she regretted choosing not to, despite what it would have cost. There would have been footage that couldn't be denied. Hope would be alive. Possibly free.
Even with the benefit of hindsight she never would have done it. Admirable to some, perhaps. To her, it was another stick of kindling on the pyre of her self-loathing.
Rinsing her brain with a swig of whiskey, her voice was low and even when she spoke. To the point that her question barely held an inflection. ] Do you have any abilities? Powers?
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She laid her hand on his back as he talked and she drank. The precinct he mentioned brought back the memory of one she'd been in that nearly ended up the same way. Officers frozen still, guns pointed at each other's heads, ready to fire if she made a move against the persuasive stranger in the purple suit. Sometimes she regretted choosing not to, despite what it would have cost. There would have been footage that couldn't be denied. Hope would be alive. Possibly free.
Even with the benefit of hindsight she never would have done it. Admirable to some, perhaps. To her, it was another stick of kindling on the pyre of her self-loathing.
Rinsing her brain with a swig of whiskey, her voice was low and even when she spoke. To the point that her question barely held an inflection. ] Do you have any abilities? Powers?