"Not to most people, I suspect. The thing you have to understand is that it isn't just that I'm like you in this way, hurt and hunted and haunted. It's that my people are too." The blanket rustles as Erin tries in vain to draw it tighter around herself. It can't get any tighter. "My entire life has been spent around people who are, by definition, traumatized. You learn to notice."
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