[she's sure that Zee is saying important things, but all her brain can focus on is how he's. taking care of her like this. how she's letting him get close enough to something that she can't hide, something that people are going to be able to see no matter how long her hair gets or whether she hides it behind a patch. it's enough to make a girl never want to see or be seen by another person again, and here she is getting tended to by the person who sent her in there in the first place.]

[she keeps her body steady and doesn't heave the sigh that she wants to.]

It's not your fault. If you knew what was there you wouldn't have needed me to go. [a pause. seems like that bit in the middle just hit her. her eyes (wrong again) widen.] He wants to crossbreed people's souls? I... I had four or five souls in me at once in there. I didn't even know who I was anymore. It could never work.