[ She takes it from him, but only to hold it in her hands for a moment as she studies him. Forgive himself. What an asinine thing to blame. As if he asked for it. As if—
No. It all touches too close to home. To something she's not ready to confront yet: that if she cannot blame her father for being the monster she'd expected him to be, then the tragedy of her mother's death in childbirth was maybe the monstrous birth of Pelan herself. Not something Vidor inflicted upon her.
It's not a blame she's willing or able to share yet. ]
It was an accident. [ She repeats his words to him instead. ] And there are more important things than bills.
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No. It all touches too close to home. To something she's not ready to confront yet: that if she cannot blame her father for being the monster she'd expected him to be, then the tragedy of her mother's death in childbirth was maybe the monstrous birth of Pelan herself. Not something Vidor inflicted upon her.
It's not a blame she's willing or able to share yet. ]
It was an accident. [ She repeats his words to him instead. ] And there are more important things than bills.