I spent...three months. Just hold up in my house. 'nd Death still came for me. [ Alex's voice sounds remarkably rough. ] She'd say...I couldn't let it get me like that. Get too crazy in my own head. My parents, they...they thought I'd gone certifiable. Maybe I had. Every day, she'd still... Even though it was out to get us both. She was the better of the both of us.
The day she finally got me outta my damn room, it... [ A slow, empty breath. ] It knew me real well. Knew how to get to me. She was too busy worrying about me, since I was... Since I'm a fucking wreck, and didn't see it coming. There wasn't any time. Force of it would've probably crushed anything it hit, and I just moved on instinct, and--
And that's just what it wanted me to do. Brick probably...caved in my skull entirely. And she... She was right there to watch.
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She was always right.
[ Damn past tense. He slipped up again. ]
I spent...three months. Just hold up in my house. 'nd Death still came for me. [ Alex's voice sounds remarkably rough. ] She'd say...I couldn't let it get me like that. Get too crazy in my own head. My parents, they...they thought I'd gone certifiable. Maybe I had. Every day, she'd still... Even though it was out to get us both. She was the better of the both of us.
The day she finally got me outta my damn room, it... [ A slow, empty breath. ] It knew me real well. Knew how to get to me. She was too busy worrying about me, since I was... Since I'm a fucking wreck, and didn't see it coming. There wasn't any time. Force of it would've probably crushed anything it hit, and I just moved on instinct, and--
And that's just what it wanted me to do. Brick probably...caved in my skull entirely. And she... She was right there to watch.