After Heaven said her piece, she neither looked back nor did she stop from walking away. Meanwhile, Primo stood still with his slightly dilated eyes in the same direction she disappeared to.
[I've decided with those three poor and innocent souls in mind.]
[If there's someone I feel sorry for, it's them. They didn't deserve what happened to them.]
[Though I must add that none of that was your fault, either. Neither that incident nor holding that old Garner's hand.]
[It's not pity. It's more like I can relate.]
[We become someone we are not sure whether to loathe for its lack of meaning or be proud of it.]
Primo breathed out heavily without realizing he had been holding his breath. Heaven's words replayed in his mind like a broken record, and as silly as it sounded, they touched a part of him that no one else succeeded. Before he knew it, a tear already rolled down his cheek.
