[She shrugs again, and now she's suddenly avoiding his gaze, that bravado gone.]
Every five fucking seconds. But it doesn't matter. I knew it wouldn't work. I can... feel it, you know? It's like being blind.
[It's not, really. It's still not something she's figured out a way to describe, but that's how people have described it for her, and it's the best she can do. It's like something has been excised out of her, like her entire way of interacting with the world has been deadened.]
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[She shrugs again, and now she's suddenly avoiding his gaze, that bravado gone.]
Every five fucking seconds. But it doesn't matter. I knew it wouldn't work. I can... feel it, you know? It's like being blind.
[It's not, really. It's still not something she's figured out a way to describe, but that's how people have described it for her, and it's the best she can do. It's like something has been excised out of her, like her entire way of interacting with the world has been deadened.]