[Some of the people talking about the knife that failed to flush down the toilet trail off to listen to this. Brook lets out a long, slow breath, hands still clenched tight for control.]
Fine. My sister killed me when I turned eighteen, who knows how many years ago. She wanted the life I was born into--and for all I know, she got it.
[No wonder he ended up thinking of her then. All Annu's talk about her siblings, what they did and didn't want to do; of course it brought up those times, distant as they might be.]
Now you're gonna say I did it to stop that, right? You'll claim I killed Terezi to save my skin back then. But I didn't. I didn't kill her. I don't... What would be the point, of going back to that meaningless life?
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[Some of the people talking about the knife that failed to flush down the toilet trail off to listen to this. Brook lets out a long, slow breath, hands still clenched tight for control.]
Fine. My sister killed me when I turned eighteen, who knows how many years ago. She wanted the life I was born into--and for all I know, she got it.
[No wonder he ended up thinking of her then. All Annu's talk about her siblings, what they did and didn't want to do; of course it brought up those times, distant as they might be.]
Now you're gonna say I did it to stop that, right? You'll claim I killed Terezi to save my skin back then. But I didn't. I didn't kill her. I don't... What would be the point, of going back to that meaningless life?