But what more can be said? What use is speaking to a ghost? This fragment of the past, shaken loose from behind the Veil, John can be of no use at all to them. He cannot take this younger, smaller iteration of Six away from her. He cannot dispel her captor from this place, or disentangle these interwoven fates.
"Has he hurt you?" John asks, very quietly. "You don't have to answer, just...before I go, I'd like to know you aren't going to suffer because I opened the wrong door."
The door that John knows he will have to walk back out and allow these shades of the past to continue uninterrupted. And this reassurance will come to nothing in the end. He doesn't stop thinking of that, even as he asks, even as his eyes search this girl's face.
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But what more can be said? What use is speaking to a ghost? This fragment of the past, shaken loose from behind the Veil, John can be of no use at all to them. He cannot take this younger, smaller iteration of Six away from her. He cannot dispel her captor from this place, or disentangle these interwoven fates.
"Has he hurt you?" John asks, very quietly. "You don't have to answer, just...before I go, I'd like to know you aren't going to suffer because I opened the wrong door."
The door that John knows he will have to walk back out and allow these shades of the past to continue uninterrupted. And this reassurance will come to nothing in the end. He doesn't stop thinking of that, even as he asks, even as his eyes search this girl's face.