[She just keeps drilling. Of course she does. He swallows, even if it's painful, even if the lump in his throat constricts and constricts to the point where, for a moment, he can't answer.
Breathe in through the nose. Slow, even. Clench hands into fists, and out again. Sink fingernails into the flesh of palms, enough to hurt, to sting. It's all right. It'll be all right. Just breathe it out.]
Of...being me?
[The words croak out with the closest thing approaching humor that Tim has to his arsenal.]
I was born with a lot of...problems, all right? Most of them were just stuff - you could treat. Except, uh.
[An awful rasping noise drags at the back of his throat. Almost like a laugh, were he capable of doing so.]
Except maybe most people get headaches. Paranoid delusions. Hallucinations. Maybe most people get that and that's - that's it, you know?
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Breathe in through the nose. Slow, even. Clench hands into fists, and out again. Sink fingernails into the flesh of palms, enough to hurt, to sting. It's all right. It'll be all right. Just breathe it out.]
Of...being me?
[The words croak out with the closest thing approaching humor that Tim has to his arsenal.]
I was born with a lot of...problems, all right? Most of them were just stuff - you could treat. Except, uh.
[An awful rasping noise drags at the back of his throat. Almost like a laugh, were he capable of doing so.]
Except maybe most people get headaches. Paranoid delusions. Hallucinations. Maybe most people get that and that's - that's it, you know?
Most people don't turn into...that.
[Most people aren't born wrong.]