[They'd ask again. Why? Why? Why? Why does he still insist on this?]
[But they already know that he means it. They already know that he means it, and they cannot take it back now. There's a wealth of retorts they ought to dredge from the sludge of their thoughts, the admixture of everyone's emotional soup slurried together with theirs.]
I can't understand.
[They just can't understand.]
I have done nothing but continue to hurt you, and those you hold dear. Have I not?
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[But they already know that he means it. They already know that he means it, and they cannot take it back now. There's a wealth of retorts they ought to dredge from the sludge of their thoughts, the admixture of everyone's emotional soup slurried together with theirs.]
I can't understand.
[They just can't understand.]
I have done nothing but continue to hurt you, and those you hold dear. Have I not?