[Onni isn't sure why he's just talking about his sister now, what it means, or what he's doing. He should be buttoning this up, putting it away inside him and focusing on surviving in this haunted university. But something about the way Vanessa is treating him, the questions she's asking, is drawing it out of him instead.
When she asks him if he'd like to braid her hair sometime, he blinks, and looks over at her, somewhat snapped out of the reverie of the photograph and his grief over the loss of his sister. It's a grounding moment, a reminder that he's here and who he's here with.]
Yes. I would like to show you what I learned.
[It comes out slowly, like he's talking through a fog, but he makes eye contact with her, his own red-rimmed and wet.]
After we get out of this place. We should get out of this place.
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[Onni isn't sure why he's just talking about his sister now, what it means, or what he's doing. He should be buttoning this up, putting it away inside him and focusing on surviving in this haunted university. But something about the way Vanessa is treating him, the questions she's asking, is drawing it out of him instead.
When she asks him if he'd like to braid her hair sometime, he blinks, and looks over at her, somewhat snapped out of the reverie of the photograph and his grief over the loss of his sister. It's a grounding moment, a reminder that he's here and who he's here with.]
Yes. I would like to show you what I learned.
[It comes out slowly, like he's talking through a fog, but he makes eye contact with her, his own red-rimmed and wet.]
After we get out of this place. We should get out of this place.
[A pause.]
My name is Onni. What's yours?