[The words tear themselves from their throat before they can stop them; before they can swallow them away or choke them back. Wrenching like broken glass, like fragments of bone lodged in their gullet.]
I was the future of humans and monsters. I was the angel that everyone believed would free them! I was - I -
[They tried.]
[They really did. They tried to be good, they swear they did, they tried, and they were going to do exactly what they were meant to, and look at how it ended up.]
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[The words tear themselves from their throat before they can stop them; before they can swallow them away or choke them back. Wrenching like broken glass, like fragments of bone lodged in their gullet.]
I was the future of humans and monsters. I was the angel that everyone believed would free them! I was - I -
[They tried.]
[They really did. They tried to be good, they swear they did, they tried, and they were going to do exactly what they were meant to, and look at how it ended up.]
I did everything I was supposed to.