No matter how many times he tells himself she's dead, his mother's face is there reminding him she loves him as his wounds close and reopen, again and again. He'd so often wished to see her again in the past, and now he finally does, as the tool of a demigod that decided to torment him.
Maybe he did something to deserve this. It's a quiet, yet persistent thought, seeking to rationalize the otherwise random nature of his suffering, not even permitted the embrace of unconsciousness as a means of escape. There's a few times when he tries thinking of the spinning snake, but he can't hold onto the image for long, not with the degree of pain as the wounds all rip open at once. He once thought Yuusuke had tortured him enough--
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No matter how many times he tells himself she's dead, his mother's face is there reminding him she loves him as his wounds close and reopen, again and again. He'd so often wished to see her again in the past, and now he finally does, as the tool of a demigod that decided to torment him.
Maybe he did something to deserve this. It's a quiet, yet persistent thought, seeking to rationalize the otherwise random nature of his suffering, not even permitted the embrace of unconsciousness as a means of escape. There's a few times when he tries thinking of the spinning snake, but he can't hold onto the image for long, not with the degree of pain as the wounds all rip open at once. He once thought Yuusuke had tortured him enough--
Yuusuke has nothing on Terrence.]