He doesn't understand maybe because the idea of killing someone stretches beyond the morality of a twelve year old's capability. Death is inherently wrong to him. It's why the Losers had made a promise to come back to stop It if It ever wound up coming back. The adults in Derry weren't going to do anything about it; they couldn't do anything about it. Someone had to.
So Eddie watches, he lets Lavellan's emotions flicker through him, but unlike with other memories, Eddie just doesn't understand. It makes his heart leap when the woman is killed, and he watches, watches as she dies. Then the feeling of Lavellan slipping unknown away- without suspicion. It wasn't just a brutal killing, Eddie realizes. It was an intentional murder. Craftily planned out like in a mystery novel.
When his eyes open and he's facing Lavellan, Eddie stares, stares for a long silent while because this man was someone he'd come to know as very gentle. Eddie takes a small step away, but it's subtle, something Eddie himself might not even realize he was doing.)
...I don't....Understand. You let her die? (No, that wasn't quite right.) You wanted her to die?
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He doesn't understand maybe because the idea of killing someone stretches beyond the morality of a twelve year old's capability. Death is inherently wrong to him. It's why the Losers had made a promise to come back to stop It if It ever wound up coming back. The adults in Derry weren't going to do anything about it; they couldn't do anything about it. Someone had to.
So Eddie watches, he lets Lavellan's emotions flicker through him, but unlike with other memories, Eddie just doesn't understand. It makes his heart leap when the woman is killed, and he watches, watches as she dies. Then the feeling of Lavellan slipping unknown away- without suspicion. It wasn't just a brutal killing, Eddie realizes. It was an intentional murder. Craftily planned out like in a mystery novel.
When his eyes open and he's facing Lavellan, Eddie stares, stares for a long silent while because this man was someone he'd come to know as very gentle. Eddie takes a small step away, but it's subtle, something Eddie himself might not even realize he was doing.)
...I don't....Understand. You let her die? (No, that wasn't quite right.) You wanted her to die?