[It comes after a long, tense silence where all her focus is on keeping her composure. When it leaves her lips, the single word cracks in the middle, just a little...just enough to make it acquiescence rather than a blowoff, a subconscious invitation to come and save her from the sick, twisting ball of anger, grief, and helplessness that's eating her alive from the inside out.]
[Private]
[It comes after a long, tense silence where all her focus is on keeping her composure. When it leaves her lips, the single word cracks in the middle, just a little...just enough to make it acquiescence rather than a blowoff, a subconscious invitation to come and save her from the sick, twisting ball of anger, grief, and helplessness that's eating her alive from the inside out.]