[She needs to change, she reminds herself. Needs to peel herself out of his foolish, pretty dress that he said suits her so well. It doesn't. She is a Speaker, and she will always be a Speaker, and things in the night kill Speakers, and there is no helping it, no changing it.
It's stifling, somehow. It twists her chest and tightens her throat and leaves it hard for her to breathe, and it takes her a minute to realize that it's because she's holding her breath to swallow back a sob.]
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[She needs to change, she reminds herself. Needs to peel herself out of his foolish, pretty dress that he said suits her so well. It doesn't. She is a Speaker, and she will always be a Speaker, and things in the night kill Speakers, and there is no helping it, no changing it.
It's stifling, somehow. It twists her chest and tightens her throat and leaves it hard for her to breathe, and it takes her a minute to realize that it's because she's holding her breath to swallow back a sob.]
It's not that dark out.
[It's absolutely that dark out.]