[He closes his eyes for a moment, trying to remember.]
You saw what happened . . . what I did. The end of it, at least. How by the end he couldn't see, or feel, and . . . then you saw him die for good. And at the funeral, I—
[His shoulders are tense, shuddering a little. It's still not far enough in the past to have stopped hurting.]
I just shut down. Because I felt like I'd made him suffer unnecessarily, and you said . . . "I understand the impulse, capo," that's what you said to me. And later you told me about your sister, so I just — I wasn't sure. And there wasn't time to ask, everything was so chaotic.
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[He closes his eyes for a moment, trying to remember.]
You saw what happened . . . what I did. The end of it, at least. How by the end he couldn't see, or feel, and . . . then you saw him die for good. And at the funeral, I—
[His shoulders are tense, shuddering a little. It's still not far enough in the past to have stopped hurting.]
I just shut down. Because I felt like I'd made him suffer unnecessarily, and you said . . . "I understand the impulse, capo," that's what you said to me. And later you told me about your sister, so I just — I wasn't sure. And there wasn't time to ask, everything was so chaotic.