[ do you ever write a tag at ass o clock and reread it like what the fuck i meant to say can imagine ?? hello ???

it's fine though - shale's right. ]

... Never killed someone else when I was under someone else's control. Hurt someone. Several someones. [ vex, the worst of it. ] And been knocked around by my friends in the same situation, too.

[ but that never stopped the guilt of it, did it? whether they lived or not, knowing you caused every injury, even if you weren't yourself. it's the guilt he knows percy lives with too, that all of them do in one way or another. ]

...Iunno. I don't fault him for it, either. Couldn't.

[ he shifts a little, curling his fingers around the pendant in his hand again. ]

Just feels - like a couple of threads cut when they shouldn't have been.