[A Marsh opinion. Or perhaps simply a literal observation. It's more of an agreement than a correction, but not quite; it's something in vein of clarification, something that must be specified aloud because of his own exacting nature, more than to make a point.]
But having nothing else - that changes. Whether you mean it to or not.
[He certainly never sought it. And yet.]
It doesn't diminish the pain.
[He says this more as a comfort that a warning. It is theirs, it makes them up, is bound into every drop of blood. Rip it out and they would not be themselves anymore. But it is endless, after all, and so the worry over losing it - short of mind control, their mutual terror - is academic.]
[Private]
[A Marsh opinion. Or perhaps simply a literal observation. It's more of an agreement than a correction, but not quite; it's something in vein of clarification, something that must be specified aloud because of his own exacting nature, more than to make a point.]
But having nothing else - that changes. Whether you mean it to or not.
[He certainly never sought it. And yet.]
It doesn't diminish the pain.
[He says this more as a comfort that a warning. It is theirs, it makes them up, is bound into every drop of blood. Rip it out and they would not be themselves anymore. But it is endless, after all, and so the worry over losing it - short of mind control, their mutual terror - is academic.]