[His voice is firm, bordering on madness. His eyes are wide and almost unfocused, flicking around the room as if the answer will materialize in front of him. He looks to Seth, then back to Chloe, lips pressing together into a hard line as he tries in vain to remain any semblance of calm.]
The event could end at any time. When that happens, surely we'll go back to the mansion and everything will be as we left it.
[Except he doesn't know that for sure. Even then, they could go back and she'd still be sick. Die. Turn into a shambling corpse. She'd have to experience the pain of a slow death as fever burned her alive from the inside.
Or they could do what she was likely insinuating; put her down like a dog, wait for her to come back whole the way Wonderland so often did.
He refuses to consider it even before it fully forms in his mind.]
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[His voice is firm, bordering on madness. His eyes are wide and almost unfocused, flicking around the room as if the answer will materialize in front of him. He looks to Seth, then back to Chloe, lips pressing together into a hard line as he tries in vain to remain any semblance of calm.]
The event could end at any time. When that happens, surely we'll go back to the mansion and everything will be as we left it.
[Except he doesn't know that for sure. Even then, they could go back and she'd still be sick. Die. Turn into a shambling corpse. She'd have to experience the pain of a slow death as fever burned her alive from the inside.
Or they could do what she was likely insinuating; put her down like a dog, wait for her to come back whole the way Wonderland so often did.
He refuses to consider it even before it fully forms in his mind.]