( oh, the guilt's still there. it was born on the deck just outside of an airlock not too far from here, and has only festered in these small darkly lit four walls. but it's different, and still incredibly lighter to the guilt that hangs over her head in present; it's only for the death of one person. someone she loved very much, but still just one. and that makes a bigger difference than clarke can comprehend at this point.
it's honestly the purple hair that drives home the face she really must be losing it. purple hair and purple eyes? that's so ridiculous. he looks like what she probably imagined main characters in childhood stories to be like, always something special about them. and the best ones always with a book — a real, paper page and glue binding book — in hand.
this is weird, but not awful. better than talking to her pillow, at least the hallucination talks back.
she thinks hard for a second, as if tallying something up before replying: ) 192 rations or so, meaning... six months and eight days?
( it's some real quick math to plot that out as one soy bean based meal a day. and if math fails, the way her gaze lingers on the food when darting between face, book, and muffin probably also drives that point home. )
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it's honestly the purple hair that drives home the face she really must be losing it. purple hair and purple eyes? that's so ridiculous. he looks like what she probably imagined main characters in childhood stories to be like, always something special about them. and the best ones always with a book — a real, paper page and glue binding book — in hand.
this is weird, but not awful. better than talking to her pillow, at least the hallucination talks back.
she thinks hard for a second, as if tallying something up before replying: ) 192 rations or so, meaning... six months and eight days?
( it's some real quick math to plot that out as one soy bean based meal a day. and if math fails, the way her gaze lingers on the food when darting between face, book, and muffin probably also drives that point home. )