"I-I don't know...I can't...what if...what if you...I..."
"P-p-please...I-I need t-to know what h-happened to me, what I d-did...h-how you know me, p-please."
"I-....You-...."She stops for a moment, trying to pull her thoughts into order. This...this was hard. It was bringing up
memories, ones she'd been trying so hard to forget. Therapy had been helping, but this was like ripping out stitches so a wound was worse than ever. She looked down at her hands and notices they're shaking. God. It was just...too much. Too much for her to take in. It had been such a good day, too, and now...her breath was ragged as she sighed, shaking in more than one way.
He was here. She'd...she'd seen what he could do to people...to
them. The researchers. The guards. The doctors. But now...he was a person. Somehow it made it so much worse. Knowing he didn't even remember what he'd done. How many times had it happened since then? How many killing rampages had he gone on, slaughtering everything in his path with such cold efficiency, only to wake up the next day none the wiser? He screwed with machines, she knew, remembered from the way it had
felt, the way the computers had acted around him as he'd neared her examination rooms. Cameras wouldn't keep footage of him, if he didn't want them to. And....and...!
"...You freed me." Kaotaro Kanemoro said, quiet enough that he could barely hear. But in a voice that could cut through all ambient sound, all distracting noise, to reach him. Her savior, in a sense. Her demons, in another.