[Almost, and that's what hurts the worse; that they were so, so close to having eked out their own happiness after the first nonary game haunted them for so long and the Pygmalion wasn't even the first place to take it away from them.
So it takes an extra couple of moments and a slow, shuddering breath before she can continue, voice thin.] Without Light. [And it's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair.] A year later, I got kidnapped with my best friend, Alice. [The name almost sounds wrong to say and that isn't fair, either.] It was...different, though, it still had to be life-or-death, but there was a prisoner's dilemma sort of thing to add to it...
[She shakes her head; that isn't the important part.]
If...if they're in the same place, a stronger esper can kind of...absorb a weaker one's power. So I—I had to be there. It was...almost that same weird form of timetravel. I had to be there so someone else could use the boost my powers gave him to go back in time to keep a disaster from happening.
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So it takes an extra couple of moments and a slow, shuddering breath before she can continue, voice thin.] Without Light. [And it's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair.] A year later, I got kidnapped with my best friend, Alice. [The name almost sounds wrong to say and that isn't fair, either.] It was...different, though, it still had to be life-or-death, but there was a prisoner's dilemma sort of thing to add to it...
[She shakes her head; that isn't the important part.]
If...if they're in the same place, a stronger esper can kind of...absorb a weaker one's power. So I—I had to be there. It was...almost that same weird form of timetravel. I had to be there so someone else could use the boost my powers gave him to go back in time to keep a disaster from happening.