[To her credit, her face doesn't so much as flinch at his words, schooled into a perfect mask of unemotional calm. She couldn't say the words that were swirling in her brain, couldn't be the one to bring him pain. And it would. With just two words, she could wound him, and perhaps even them, irrecoverably.
Are there?.
He wouldn't be able to understand it, though. He hadn't had to kill somebody that he loves because they couldn't bear the thought of becoming a Culebra. He didn't believe in God and Heaven and have parents he desperately wanted to be reunited with some day. Unlike her, he seemed capable of carrying the burden of what he had to do to live as a Culebra.
She still believed that maybe some day, she could get married, have children, have some semblance of a normal life. The kind of life her Momma and Daddy would have wanted her to have. But she could never have that if she were a Culebra. She might never have that with Richie and that was exactly why, she couldn't tell him any of this.]
No I.... I just thought you'd want to know. [Lips pressing together as she drags one of the throw pillows towards her and hugs it against her chest.]
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Are there?.
He wouldn't be able to understand it, though. He hadn't had to kill somebody that he loves because they couldn't bear the thought of becoming a Culebra. He didn't believe in God and Heaven and have parents he desperately wanted to be reunited with some day. Unlike her, he seemed capable of carrying the burden of what he had to do to live as a Culebra.
She still believed that maybe some day, she could get married, have children, have some semblance of a normal life. The kind of life her Momma and Daddy would have wanted her to have. But she could never have that if she were a Culebra. She might never have that with Richie and that was exactly why, she couldn't tell him any of this.]
No I.... I just thought you'd want to know. [Lips pressing together as she drags one of the throw pillows towards her and hugs it against her chest.]