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"She is a child caught in a nuclear blast. Her mind has reached its limit. If you sit her down and dump a ledger of engineered misery on her, she will break. She needs a medium that is highly visual, linear, and radically simplified. Picture books, simplified stages, or even songsātools that structure the trauma into safe, digestible boundaries so her brain can process the truth without it collapsing on itself."
āHer reasoning began to make sense. What we had recovered from the vault had not only been a lot, but the pictures had been horribly egregious. The children forced to anchor power beyond their bodies' endurance, resulting in mutations that could still be seen centuries later, was enough to send even the strongest and most mentally stable person into a horrible spiral.
āYet, when I glanced at Zayne as he stared into space, I fully expected him to dismiss the idea as some silly analogy that did not apply to this situation because Aurora is a grown adult.
