[And then, some time later, the connection widens again, he settles into her mind, words and emotions he fails to rein in in any significant way, slipping too far into the connection. Attentions split. Unusually careless but typically guilty.]
She has killed someone.
[The picture is incomplete and ill-formed. She seemed so quiet. The brood would be ruinous. He had failed to properly assess the danger found in it. Tension blossoming open and being pulled back in petal by petal as, in less than a second, he finds control of his emotions again. Aware he had opened the connection too soon. More folly, where was his patience?]
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She has killed someone.
[The picture is incomplete and ill-formed. She seemed so quiet. The brood would be ruinous. He had failed to properly assess the danger found in it. Tension blossoming open and being pulled back in petal by petal as, in less than a second, he finds control of his emotions again. Aware he had opened the connection too soon. More folly, where was his patience?]