And that, seeing and hearing his best friend so... broken, she's obviously broken, it's like a knife to the gut.
Good thing he's gotten good at ignoring injuries until they can be tended.
"Yeah." He closes his eyes and remembers - it's hard to keep the memory fresh, it was so very long ago, but he pulls it up, their room with Jade's plants and their bunk beds and the two of them just kids sitting on the top bunk giggling instead of trying to go to sleep. "You didn't actually sleep in our room, you slept with your Daves. But you always stayed until I fell asleep. Got so I couldn't fall asleep if you weren't there, for a while."
He sighs, and opens his eyes. "What did she do to you, Jade? How-- How did she make you like this?" Maybe it can be fixed. Maybe, if they rescue her and cut off contact with Hypatia, and remove the programming, she'll be able to heal, and eventually be whole again, and not this shattered shadow of a girl John loves with all his heart.
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Good thing he's gotten good at ignoring injuries until they can be tended.
"Yeah." He closes his eyes and remembers - it's hard to keep the memory fresh, it was so very long ago, but he pulls it up, their room with Jade's plants and their bunk beds and the two of them just kids sitting on the top bunk giggling instead of trying to go to sleep. "You didn't actually sleep in our room, you slept with your Daves. But you always stayed until I fell asleep. Got so I couldn't fall asleep if you weren't there, for a while."
He sighs, and opens his eyes. "What did she do to you, Jade? How-- How did she make you like this?" Maybe it can be fixed. Maybe, if they rescue her and cut off contact with Hypatia, and remove the programming, she'll be able to heal, and eventually be whole again, and not this shattered shadow of a girl John loves with all his heart.
He misses his sister.