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The thing about despair is that, no matter how the logical part of your brain tries to rationalize the idiocy of wallowing in darkness, it’s not enough to shake one loose from it. In a sick kind of feedback loop, there is no way to rise above.
There’d been a moment when lucidity had come over her, when she’d looked up and met Daniel’s eye, asked silently for him to speak to her, talk to her about anything, just say hello. The blankness in his gaze that overshadowed some profound emotion she couldn’t interpret pushed her back to the void.
“My best judgment is to kill you and eliminate the risk you pose.”
Dee blinked to refocus her attention. She tried to meet the Rishi’s gaze, to show she was paying attention, but it was all a lie. She wasn’t sure what he was talking about.
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