It's so fucking common where I'm from, and yet it's not something I'd wish for anyone to go through.
[Jade pauses, her jaw tightening.]
Well. My father had it coming. But my mother and sister -- they didn't deserve that. Not at all.
[There is animosity in her words when she speaks of her father -- the monster she owes much of her sleepless nights to. Or maybe he was just always an avatar for all her other boxed up bullshit as well. Hard to say. She's no head doctor.]
But, yeah. Guess you can see why the food they were serving up in that jinba village got to me the way it did. The... smell. I can usually tolerate it, but it caught me off guard.
[Of course, it wasn't the only reason, but it was the less heinous one. The one that people could still hear and think "poor girl" about, rather than see her as the disgusting and vile creature she is.]
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[Jade pauses, her jaw tightening.]
Well. My father had it coming. But my mother and sister -- they didn't deserve that. Not at all.
[There is animosity in her words when she speaks of her father -- the monster she owes much of her sleepless nights to. Or maybe he was just always an avatar for all her other boxed up bullshit as well. Hard to say. She's no head doctor.]
But, yeah. Guess you can see why the food they were serving up in that jinba village got to me the way it did. The... smell. I can usually tolerate it, but it caught me off guard.
[Of course, it wasn't the only reason, but it was the less heinous one. The one that people could still hear and think "poor girl" about, rather than see her as the disgusting and vile creature she is.]