[There are moments in time where one can feel a mood shift entirely.
Asher sits up suddenly, posture straightening as he processes her words. Until now he had suspected that her world was as normal as could be, because she was so very human, so very familiar. Then she says things that don't make sense, that strike him as peculiar.
Dad got lost.
She recounts all this like a person trying to make sense of a table full of scattered photographs, as if she's seeing everything and it's not making sense.
He and my Mom couldn't keep themselves from eating.
To be fair, his world isn't really normal either. How normal is it, to work in a house where so many people whisper and worry all the time, to work in a town where his professor's husband went missing and girl's body was found in a water tank. Asher has yet to process this.
He is always in the dark.]
You didn't remember... Like, you just didn't think about it or-
[A thumb rises, pressing against his lip in thought.]
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Asher sits up suddenly, posture straightening as he processes her words. Until now he had suspected that her world was as normal as could be, because she was so very human, so very familiar. Then she says things that don't make sense, that strike him as peculiar.
Dad got lost.
She recounts all this like a person trying to make sense of a table full of scattered photographs, as if she's seeing everything and it's not making sense.
He and my Mom couldn't keep themselves from eating.
To be fair, his world isn't really normal either. How normal is it, to work in a house where so many people whisper and worry all the time, to work in a town where his professor's husband went missing and girl's body was found in a water tank. Asher has yet to process this.
He is always in the dark.]
You didn't remember... Like, you just didn't think about it or-
[A thumb rises, pressing against his lip in thought.]
There was a moment where it all came back to you?